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#EHJCVI 🧠 Is unsupervised clustering useful to classify high-risk MR patients ineligible for surgery? 🤖 This study identified two distinct clusters. Was mortality different between them? What were their characteristics? 📊 Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/…

Read our report x👇🏻 Post-Bentall coronary artery pseudoaneurysm presenting as inferior wall myocardial infarction doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ar… @vineetao17 @EHJCVIEiC

#EHJCVI 🫀Should we use LA and RA strain after TAVR for severe AS? Is it linked to mortality? Impairment of either is linked to a 1.7-fold ↑ risk of 3-year all-cause mortality, even after adjustment ⚠️ Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/…

#EHJCVI 🧠 Do T1 map values vary between healthy athletes and non-athletic controls? 📉 What healthy reference values should we consider for this population? 🏃‍♂️📊 Check this cross-sectional study showing decreased native T1 values in elite athletes 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/…

Don’t miss this important manuscript from the World Alliance of Societies of #Echofirst #EHJCVI ➡️ academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ad… @ESC_Journals @escardio @bernhard_gerber @JGrapsa @EZancanaroMD @pabloplopez_ @echo_stepbystep @EACVIPresident @BenekiEirini @AnnaKateBarton @VikashJaiswalMD

📢 New paper out! We respond to van Hattum et al.’s recent #EHJCVI study on the female athlete’s heart, comparing findings with our recent work in @BJSM_BMJ. 📎 Response: bit.ly/40SXqkz 👉🏻 van Hattum et al: bit.ly/4lP8Qhj 👉🏻 Rowe et al.: bit.ly/4kBjTK3s

Get into #EHJCVI #Discussion ➡️ The term “athlete’s heart” encapsulates both male and female athletic hearts if indexed correctly ➡️ academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ad… @escardio @ESC_Journals @EACVIPresident

Ultrasound shear wave elastography for detection of myocardial #fibrosis by Dr Petrescu and colleagues ➡️ academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ad… @ESC_Journals @escardio @EACVIPresident @bernhard_gerber @EZancanaroMD @pabloplopez_ @BenekiEirini @AnnaKateBarton @OttoSmiseth

Unusual IE Case 🦠🫀 45M with BAV & moderate AR presented with 1-month intermittent fever → Dx: mitral valve leaflet diverticulum with infective endocarditis + eccentric AR. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… #CardioTwitter #InfectiveEndocarditis #EchoFirst #CaseReport

Rare Case 🚨 A 36-year-👦 with prior aortic valve replacement & Dacron graft for AR/root dilation presents with sternal notch swelling & retrosternal pain 🫀 📄 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… #CardioTwitter #Endocarditis #CaseReport #CVImaging #echofirst #yesCCT @ESC_Journals

🫀 Rare alert: Acute focal myocarditis linked to gilteritinib, a novel TKI, highlights potential FLT3-related cardiotoxicity. Clinicians should be aware of myocarditis as part of the TKI cardiotoxicity spectrum. #CardioOncology #Myocarditis #TKI 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… #EHJCVI

🧠📊 AI-guided CCTA identifies plaque in ~96–97% of patients—but a PAV ≤2.6% signals low long-term ACS risk. Validated across two cohorts, this cut-off may aid safer, smarter risk stratification. #AI #CCTA #Cardiology #PlaqueBurden 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… @ESC_Journals

🫀In #ANOCA patients, coronary microvascular function is usually homogeneous—supporting single-artery testing per guidelines. But some show variation across territories, suggesting multi-vessel assessment may be wise in select cases. #Microcirculation 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/…

📉 Fewer UK patients with moderate ischaemia are getting invasive angiography—but intervention rates remain stable. Stress echo is improving patient selection, reducing unnecessary procedures. Will this trend last, and how will it impact outcomes? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/…

🚨 A 63-year-old 🧑‍🦳 with a 2-year history of allergic asthma presented with 10-day chest tightness & dyspnoea. Multiparametric imaging revealed Löffler’s endocarditis 🫀 📚 Yangjie Xiao et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… 🧵 via @EHJCVIEiC #echofirst #LöfflerEndocarditis #EHJCVI

#EHJCVI Most read ➡️ This consensus statement aims to provide practical advice for all clinicians regarding the use of #multimodality #imaging to simplify the diagnostic evaluation, prognostic stratification, and management of cardiac involvement in AFD ➡️ academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ar…

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Don’t miss this important #EHJCVI manuscript by Dr Santi @bogdan_popescu1 @NAjmoneMarsan @PPibarot and colleagues ➡️ academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ad… @ESC_Journals @EACVIPresident @escardio @bernhard_gerber @JGrapsa @pabloplopez_ @echo_stepbystep @EZancanaroMD

Diastolic Dysfunction as a Trigger for Intervention in AR : an interesting editorial by @DonalErwan and colleagues under #EHJCVI academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ad… @ESC_Journals @escardio @bernhard_gerber @JGrapsa @pabloplopez_ @echo_stepbystep @BenekiEirini @AnnaKateBarton @IndahSP_MD