New risk classification adapting SCAI shock stages to patients with pulmonary embolism (RISA-PE).

Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) treatment is based on risk stratification according to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines. However, emerging therapies in acute PE may require a more granular risk classification. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to propose a new RIsk claSsification Adapting the SCAI shock stages to right ventricular failure due to acute PE (RISA-PE).

Role of multimodality cardiac imaging for evaluation of intramyocardial dissection, from dissecting haematoma to false-pseudoaneurysm: a case series.

Background: Intramyocardial dissection (ID) is an extremely rare myocardial infarction mechanical complication. Although both clinical and imaging assessment of this rare condition remains a challenge, recent multimodality imaging techniques may help to confirm and to assess the progressive nature of the disease. Diagnosis may be reached in different stages, from as early as the intramyocardial dissecting haematoma to the severe false-pseudoaneurysm.

Adolescent Reference Values for MR-Derived Biventricular Strain Obtained Using Feature-Tracking and Myocardial Tagging.

Background: Myocardial strain is a promising marker for the detection of early left or right ventricular (LV or RV) dysfunction in pediatric populations. The reference standard for MR strain measurement is myocardial tagging (MT); however, MT has limited clinical utility because the additional acquisitions needed are time-consuming. In contrast, MR-feature tracking (FT) allows strain quantification from routinely acquired cine sequences.

Absence of Myocardial Involvement After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Asymptomatic Adolescents.

This study aimed to evaluate the presence of subclinical myocardial damage in adolescents who were vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. One hundred twenty asymptomatic adolescents with a mean age of 16.0 ± 0.

Redefining cardiac damage staging in aortic stenosis: the value of GLS and RVAc.

Aims: Cardiac damage staging has been postulated as a prognostic tool in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The aims of our study are (i) to validate cardiac damage staging systems previously described to stratify patients with aortic stenosis (AS), (ii) to identify independent risk factors for 1-year mortality in patients with severe AS undergoing TAVR, and (iii) to develop a novel staging model and compare its predictive performance to that of the above mentioned.

Methods And Results: Patients undergoing TAVR from 2017 to 2021 were included in a single-centre prospective registry.

Magnetic resonance imaging reference values for cardiac morphology, function and tissue composition in adolescents.

Background: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a precise tool for the assessment of cardiac anatomy, function, and tissue composition. However, studies providing CMR reference values in adolescence are scarce. We aim to provide sex-specific CMR reference values for biventricular and atrial dimensions and function and myocardial relaxation times in this population.