Integrated Use of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Prediction Tools for Risk Prognostication.

Key Points: The Mayo clinic imaging classification and the predicting renal outcome in polycystic kidney disease score are used to assess the risk of progression to kidney failure in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Mayo imaging classification and predicting renal outcome in polycystic kidney disease show little concordance; combined use increased the ability to identify rapid progression especially among intermediate risk patients. Accurate risk prediction is key for determining indication for specific treatment.

Assessment of 10-Year Left-Ventricular-Remodeling by CMR in Patients Following Aortic Valve Replacement.

Aortic valve replacement (AVR) may result in reverse cardiac remodeling. We aimed to assess long-term changes in the myocardium following AVR by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR). We prospectively observed the long-term left ventricular (LV) function and structure of 27 patients with AVR [ = 19 with aortic stenosis (AS); = 8 with aortic regurgitation (AR)] by CMR.

Deep-learning-based real-time prediction of acute kidney injury outperforms human predictive performance.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major complication after cardiothoracic surgery. Early prediction of AKI could prompt preventive measures, but is challenging in the clinical routine. One important reason is that the amount of postoperative data is too massive and too high-dimensional to be effectively processed by the human operator.

Validation of simple measures of aortic distensibility based on standard 4-chamber cine CMR: a new approach for clinical studies.

Objective: Aortic distensibility (AD) represents a well-established parameter of aortic stiffness. It remains unclear, however, whether AD can be obtained with high reproducibility in standard 4-chamber cine CMR images of the descending aorta. This study investigated the intra- and inter-observer agreement of AD based on different angles of the aorta and provided a sample size calculation of AD for future trials.