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减盐奋斗中的进展与挑战

阐述了世界不同国家为了减少盐摄入而做出的努力…… More >>

中国减少盐摄入与高血压的研究现状与展望

高血压及其导致的脑卒中、心力衰竭等是一个严重的公共健康问题。 More >>

澳大利亚减少食盐摄入：从倡议到行动

澳大利亚联邦政府已经承诺到2025年人均食盐摄入量减少30%…… More >>

Arts and Medicine more

Illustrated through a harmonious collection of geometric poly art and 3D digital media. More >>
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Dedicated to resilient patients from all around the globe, “Springing into Life” is a... More >>

Original Article

Psychosocial well-being in postpartum women with congenital heart disease
Annika Freiberger, Jürgen Beckmann, Sebastian Freilinger, Harald Kaemmerer, Maximilian Huber, Nicole Nagdyman, Peter Ewert, Lars Pieper, Charlotte Deppe, Bettina Kuschel, Caroline Andonian
PDF Pages: 389-399 Full Text (279) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Concomitant cardiovascular malformations in isolated bicuspid aortic valve disease: a retrospective cross-sectional study and meta-analysis
Katalin Szöcs, Betül Toprak, Gerhard Schön, Meike Rybczynski, Tatjana Brinken, Adrian Mahlmann, Evaldas Girdauskas, Stefan Blankenberg, Yskert von Kodolitsch
PDF Pages: 400-414 Full Text (262) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Quantitative plaque characterisation and association with acute coronary syndrome on medium to long term follow up: insights from computed tomography coronary angiography
Ravi K. Munnur, Kevin Cheng, Jordan Laggoune, Andrew Talman, Rahul Muthalaly, Nitesh Nerlekar, Yi-Wei Baey, Jason Nogic, Andrew Lin, James D. Cameron, Sujith Seneviratne, Dennis T. L. Wong
PDF Pages: 415-425 Full Text (230) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Quality of life in patients with Fabry’s disease: a cross-sectional study of 86 adults
Caroline Andonian, Jürgen Beckmann, Oliver Mayer, Peter Ewert, Annika Freiberger, Maximilian Huber, Harald Kaemmerer, Christine Kurschat, Florian Lagler, Nicole Nagdyman, Lars Pieper, Claudia Regenbogen, Sebastian Freilinger
PDF Pages: 426-435 Full Text (408) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Left ventricular remodeling and systolic function changes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a comprehensive contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance study
Tingyu Li, Qiong Ou, Xiaobing Zhou, Xiaoyu Wei, Anping Cai, Xiaodan Li, Guanmin Ren, Zhicheng Du, Zuogeng Hong, Yilu Cheng, Hui Liu
PDF Pages: 436-452 Full Text (479) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Early surgery determines prognosis in patients with infective endocarditis: outcome in patients managed by an Endocarditis Team—a prospective cohort study
Alfonso J. K. Pecoraro, Philipus G. Herbst, Jacques T. Janson, Riegardt Wagenaar, Zane Ismail, Jantjie J. Taljaard, Hans W. Prozesky, Colette Pienaar, Anton F. Doubell
PDF Pages: 453-463 Full Text (176) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Machine learning models predict total charges and drivers of cost for transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Agam Bansal, Chandan Garg, Essa Hariri, Nicholas Kassis, Amgad Mentias, Amar Krishnaswamy, Samir R. Kapadia
PDF Pages: 464-474 Full Text (367) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access Get Permission
A multi-center trial on efficacy and safety of the LifeTech CeraFlexTM ASD occluder for transcatheter closure in patients with secundum atrial septal defects
Celina Fritz, Andrea Engelhardt, Jochen Grohmann, Ingo Dähnert, Johanna Hummel, Daniel Tanase, Peter Ewert, Andreas Eicken
PDF Pages: 475-484 Full Text (204) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Predictors and outcomes of ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization in deferred lesion based on fractional flow reserve: a multi-center retrospective cohort study
Takao Sato, Sonoka Goto, Shohei Kishi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Takayuki Warisawa, Amane Kozuki, Suga Toshihiro, Keiichi Tsuchida, Hirokazu Yokoi, Kawai Kazuya, Kohei Akazawa, Yoshifusa Aizawa
PDF Pages: 485-494 Full Text (220) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission

Review Article

Left ventricular noncompaction: a disorder with genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity—a narrative review
Keiichi Hirono, Fukiko Ichida
PDF Pages: 495-515 Full Text (264) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
The need for custom made frozen elephant trunk: when and where
Pierpaolo Chivasso, Paolo Masiello, Mario Miele, Vito Domenico Bruno, Alba Chiara Genovino, Ivana Iesu, Donato Triggiani, Mario Colombino, Francesco Cafarelli, Rocco Leone, Generoso Mastrogiovanni, Severino Iesu
PDF Pages: 516-520 Full Text (242) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Vascular aging in adult congenital heart disease-a narrative review
Tomoaki Murakami
PDF Pages: 521-530 Full Text (195) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access Get Permission
Renal outcomes of suprarenal vs. infrarenal endograft fixation in endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a narrative review
Alexander Geragotellis, Kofi Cox, Ho Cheung Anthony Yip, Matti Jubouri, Ian M. Williams, Damian M. Bailey, Mohamad Bashir
PDF Pages: 531-544 Full Text (333) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access Get Permission

Case Report

Kinking of frozen elephant trunk: reality versus myth—a case report and literature reported
Yutaka Okita
PDF Pages: 545-551 Full Text (270) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access Get Permission

Original Article

Risk factors of prolonged mechanical ventilation following open heart surgery: what has changed over the last decade?
Muhammad-Mujtaba Ali Siddiqui, Iftikhar Paras, Anjum Jalal

Review Article

Cardiac rehabilitation past, present and future: an overview
Warner M. Mampuya
Low gradient "severe" aortic stenosis with preserved left ventricular ojection fraction
Alper Ozkan
The coronary slow flow phenomenon: characteristics, mechanisms and implications
Xiao Wang, Shao-Ping Nie
Echocardiographic Guidance for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Percutaneous Procedures
Cam Tu Nguyen, Eunice Lee, Huai Luo, Robert J Siegel
Computed tomography in the evaluation for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Paul Schoenhagen, Jörg Hausleiter, Stephan Achenbach, Milind Y. Desai, E. Murat Tuzcu
Coronary CT angiography with prospective ECG-triggering: an effective alternative to invasive coronary angiography
Zhonghua Sun
Cardiac biomarkers: New tools for heart failure management
Navaid Iqbal, Bailey Wentworth, Rajiv Choudhary, Alejandro De La Parra Landa, Benjamin Kipper, Arrash Fard, Alan S. Maisel
Angiotensin II type-2 receptor-specific effects on the cardiovascular system
Ying Li, Xiao-hui Li, Hong Yuan
Imaging in the context of replacement heart valve development: Use of the Visible Heart® methodologies
Michael G. Bateman, Paul A. Iaizzo
4D flow imaging with MRI
Zoran Stankovic, Bradley D. Allen, Julio Garcia, Kelly B. Jarvis, Michael Markl

Editorial

Grading aortic stenosis severity when the flow modifies the gradientvalve area correlation
Patrizio Lancellotti

Perspective

Lack of focus on cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa
Ana Olga Mocumbi

Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging

Coronary artery calcium scoring, what is answered and what questions remain
George Youssef, Matthew J. Budoff
Post myocardial infarction of the left ventricle: The course ahead seen by cardiac MRI
Pier Giorgio Masci, Jan Bogaert
Epicardial and thoracic fat - Noninvasive measurement and clinical implications
Damini Dey, Ryo Nakazato, Debiao Li, Daniel S Berman

Review Articles

Aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: mechanisms and implications
Barbara E. Stähli, Willibald Maier, Roberto Corti, Thomas F. Lüscher, Rolf Jenni, Felix C. Tanner
High residual platelet reactivity on clopidogrel: its significance and therapeutic challenges overcoming clopidogrel resistance
Torkom Garabedian, Samir Alam
Contemporary echocardiographic guiding tools for device closure of interatrial communications
Thomas Bartel, Silvana Müller

Case Report

Kounis syndrome - an atopic monster for the heart
Venkataramanan Gangadharan, Samit Bhatheja, Kais Al Balbissi

Original Article

Reproducibility of myocardial perfusion reserve - variations in measurements from post processing using commercially available software
Pavel Goykhman, Puja K. Mehta, Megha Agarwal, Chrisandra Shufelt, Piotr J. Slomka, Yuching Yang, Yuan Xu, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E. J. Thomson
3D morphometry using automated aortic segmentation in native MR angiography: an alternative to contrast enhanced MRA?
Matthias Müller-Eschner, Tobias Müller, Andreas Biesdorf, Stefan Wörz, Fabian Rengier, Dittmar Böckler, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Karl Rohr, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk
Noninvasive pressure difference mapping derived from 4D flow MRI in patients with unrepaired and repaired aortic coarctation
Fabian Rengier, Michael Delles, Joachim Eichhorn, Yoo-Jin Azad, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Rüdiger Dillmann, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Roland Unterhinninghofen, Sebastian Ley
Life span of patients with Eisenmenger syndrome is not superior to that of patients with other causes of pulmonary hypertension
Béatrice Bonello, Sébastien Renard, Julien Mancini, Sandrine Huber, Gilbert Habib, Alain Fraisse
Vegetarian diets and glycemic control in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yoko Yokoyama, Neal D. Barnard, Susan M. Levin, Mitsuhiro Watanabe

Review Article

Hypoxamirs in pulmonary hypertension: breathing new life into pulmonary vascular research
Andrew E. Hale, Kevin White, Stephen Y. Chan
Bone marrow-derived cell therapy in chagasic cardiac disease: a review of pre-clinical and clinical results
Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, Adriana Bastos Carvalho, Debora Bastos Mello, Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg
Imaging in the context of replacement heart valve development: Use of the Visible Heart® methodologies
Michael G. Bateman, Paul A. Iaizzo
Antioxidant therapies for the management of atrial fibrillation
Tong Liu, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Guangping Li
The Popeye domain containing genes: essential elements in heart rate control
Roland F. Schindler, Kar Lai Poon, Subreena Simrick, Thomas Brand
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: fundamentals and application to the evaluation of the peripheral perfusion
Yaron Gordon, Sasan Partovi, Matthias Müller-Eschner, Erik Amarteifio, Tobias Bäuerle, Marc-André Weber, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Fabian Rengier
4D flow imaging with MRI
Zoran Stankovic, Bradley D. Allen, Julio Garcia, Kelly B. Jarvis, Michael Markl
Review of MRI-based measurements of pulse wave velocity: a biomarker of arterial stiffness
Andrew L. Wentland, Thomas M. Grist, Oliver Wieben

Editorial

Conflict of interest in Peer-Reviewed medical journals: The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) position on a challenging problem
Lorraine E. Ferris, Robert H. Fletcher
Fractional flow reserve measurements to identify justified targets for PCI in patients with stable angina: FAME 2 and beyond
Frits H.A.F. de Man, Clemens von Birgelen

Brief Report

Correlates of objectively measured physical activity in cardiac patients
Wonwoo Byun, Cemal Ozemek, Katrina Riggin, Scott Strath, Leonard Kaminsky

Perspective

African experiences of humanitarian cardiovascular medicine: A Kenyan perspective
Christine Awuor Yuko-Jowi

Original Articles

Left ventricular energy model predicts adverse events in women with suspected myocardial ischemia: results from the NHLBI-sponsored women’s ischemia syndrome evaluation (WISE) study
Mark Doyle, Nicole Weinberg, Gerald M. Pohost, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J. Shaw, George Sopko, Anthon Fuisz, William J. Rogers, Edward G. Walsh, B. Delia Johnson, Barry L. Sharaf, Carl J. Pepine, Sunil Mankad, Steven E. Reis, Geetha Rayarao, Diane A. Vido, Vera Bittner, Lindsey Tauxe, Marian B. Olson, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Robert WW Biederman
Cardiac risk factors and myocardial perfusion reserve in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction
Megha Agarwal, Chrisandra Shufelt, Puja K. Mehta, Edward Gill, Daniel S. Berman, Debiao Li, Behzad Sharif, Ning Li, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E.J. Thomson
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging myocardial perfusion reserve index assessment in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction and reference controls
Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Louise E. J. Thomson, Pavel Goykhman, Megha Agarwal, Puja K. Mehta, Tara Sedlak, Ning Li, Edward Gill, Bruce Samuels, Babak Azabal, Saibal Kar, Kamlesh Kothawade, Margo Minissian, Piotr Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz
Improved diagnosis and prognosis using Decisions Informed by Combining Entities (DICE): results from the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)
Mark Doyle, Gerald M. Pohost, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J. Shaw, George Sopko, William J. Rogers, Barry L. Sharaf, Carl J. Pepine, Diane A. Vido-Thompson, Geetha Rayarao, Lindsey Tauxe, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Douglas Mc Nair, Robert W. Biederman

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Original Article

Editorial

Review Article

Treatment of advanced heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease: a narrative review and clinical cases
Christoph Sinning, Michael Huntgeburth, Norihide Fukushima, Rose Tompkins, June Huh, Shigeru Tataneo, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Yih-Sharng Chen, Elvin Zengin, Christina Magnussen, Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer, Yang Hyun Cho, Stefan Blankenberg, Carsten Rickers, Frank Harig, Michael Weyand, Michael Hübler, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Öztekin Oto, Andreas Zuckermann, Paulus Kirchhof, Helmut Baumgartner, Hermann Reichenspurner, Jon Kobashigawa, Harald Kaemmerer, Koichiro Niwa

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Journal Highlight more

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) is an open access, peer-reviewed, international English-language journal indexed by PubMed/PubMed Central and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). The journal publishes manuscripts that describe novel findings in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiovascular diseases including contributions related to clinical cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, public heath, nursing, sociology, human genetics, basic sciences, education, and the environment.

COVID-19 Column more

Research advances in myocardial injury caused by COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused a large-scale infection in China at the end of... More >>

Can COVID19 trigger the plaque vulnerability—a Kounis syndrome warning for “asymptomatic subjects”

The global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)... More >>

Comprehensive update on current outbreak of novel coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV)

Recently, a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a respiratory infection with... More >>

Article Snapshot more


Acute Limited Intimal Tears of the Thoracic Aorta More >>

Value of supra-annular structure measurements for size selection of self-expanding transcatheter heart valve in patients with bicuspid aortic valve morphology

A recent article published ahead-of-print in the journal Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. discusses... More >>

TAVR in Intermediate-Risk Populations

Two clinical trials recently presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC 2016) meeting... More >>

Reviewers more

The reviewers of CDT 2019

We appreciate and thank the reviewers of CDT for their tremendous efforts to support and improve... More >>

Announcement more

New Impact Factor for Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy: 2.552

We are pleased to announce that Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2021 citation year: 2.552. More >>

2021 Annual Report of CDT

Greetings from Prof. Paul Schoenhagen and Editorial Office of CDT! More >>

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a... More >>

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