Publications by authors named "Holger Vogelsberg"
Objectives: We wanted to assess the value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) stress testing for evaluation of women with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).
Background: A combined perfusion and infarction CMR examination can accurately diagnose CAD in the clinical setting in a mixed gender population.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled 147 consecutive women with chest pain or other symptoms suggestive of CAD at 2 centers (Duke University Medical Center, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus).
Objectives: This study was conducted to clarify the incidence of coronary spasm in emergency patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and acute chest pain at rest.
Background: Chest pain at rest is a frequent symptom in the emergency room. Acute coronary syndrome is suspected in patients with elevation of cardiac markers, ischemic electrocardiographic changes, or simply typical clinical symptoms of unstable (usually resting) angina.
Objectives: We sought to evaluate the diagnostic performance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) for detection of cardiac amyloidosis compared with endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in a clinical routine setting.
Background: For the clinical workup of heart failure with restrictive filling, pattern cardiac amyloidosis is an important differential diagnosis that is difficult to verify with current noninvasive techniques, especially in the presence of myocardial hypertrophy.
Methods: A total of 33 consecutive patients underwent both CMRI and EMB for workup of heart failure with restrictive filling pattern in combination with myocardial hypertrophy (n = 24) and/or clinical conditions often associated with cardiac amyloidosis (n = 18).
Background: Enteroviruses and adenoviruses have been considered the most common causes of viral myocarditis, but parvovirus B19 (PVB19) and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) are increasingly found in endomyocardial biopsy samples.
Methods And Results: Consequently, our aim was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical presentation of cardiac PVB19 and/or HHV6 infection in a cohort of myocarditis patients and to follow its clinical course. In addition, we sought to demonstrate patterns of myocardial damage and to determine predictors for chronic heart failure.
Aims: The relationship between wall thickness, wall thickening, wall motion, and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) results for detection of myocardial infarction has never been systematically evaluated in a clinical setting. In particular, the discussion whether non-ischaemic regional wall motion abnormalities and reduced wall thickness can cause SPECT to be false positive for infarct detection remains unsettled.
Methods And Results: We therefore evaluated patients presenting with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and only included them in the analysis if any coronary artery disease (CAD) had been ruled out by angiography.
Background: Myocarditis can occasionally lead to sudden death and may progress to dilated cardiomyopathy in up to 10% of patients. Because the initial onset is difficult to recognize clinically and the diagnostic tools available are unsatisfactory, new strategies to diagnose myocarditis are needed.
Methods And Results: Cardiovascular MR imaging (CMR) was performed in 32 patients who were diagnosed with myocarditis by clinical criteria.