Vol 15, No 1 (February 28, 2025): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Editorial Commentary

Optimizing the diagnostic yield of invasive coronary function testing
A. Suzanne Vink, Marcel A. M. Beijk
More testing, more findings: the evolving story of coronary vascular dysfunction
Jingwen Huang, Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Puja K. Mehta
Sirolimus coated balloons in peripheral arterial disease, what’s next?
Dexter Yak Seng Chan, Julian Chi Leung Wong, Tjun Yip Tang
Can machine learning predict successful chronic total occlusion crossing with primary antegrade wiring?
Takao Konishi, Teruo Sekimoto, Rika Kawakami, Diljon Chahal, Renu Virmani, Aloke V. Finn
Staging complex pulmonary and right heart problems in mitral annular calcification with mitral valve dysfunction
Naoko Ichikawa, Yumi Shiina
Intraprocedural mitral regurgitation and gradient: key determinants of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair outcomes for primary mitral regurgitation
Takashi Nagasaka, Mamoo Nakamura
Cardiac structural and functional damage induced and/or increasingly aggravated by aortic valve stenosis
Michael Dandel

Original Article

Hemodynamic interplay of ventricular, atrial and aortic function in patients after arterial switch operation: insights from cardiac MRI
Anne R. Schöber, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Philip Wegner, Dominik D. Gabbert, Inga Voges, Jens Scheewe, Tobias Giertzsch, Karl-Patrik Kresoja, Yevheniia Artemenko, Carsten Rickers
One-year patency rates of saphenous vein grafts harvested using the no-touch technique in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
Ji-Qiang Bu, Jian-Jun Gu, Teng-Yue Zhao, Yu Liu, Guo-Li Zhang, Zi-Ying Chen
Exploring the causal association between congenital heart disease and stroke based on two-sample Mendelian randomization
Xiaoyong Jing, Yitian Cao, Qiang Wang
Treatment and prognosis of patients with Kawasaki disease and giant coronary artery aneurysm: a retrospective observational study
Naoki Saito, Ryota Ebata, Kentaro Okunushi, Kumi Yasukawa, Hiromichi Hamada
Development of a clinical prediction model for acute myocarditis using coronary computed tomography angiography-based radiomics
Xiaorong Chen, Lei Lv, Jiangfeng Pan, Dongwei Guan, Yimin Huang, Yi Hu, Haiping Zhang, Hongjie Hu
Association between lipoprotein(a) and atherosclerosis with different diabetic status: a cross-sectional study in a Chinese population
Guoli Yang, Yue Luo, Kanghua Ma, Bao Yang, Ping Tang, Min Zhang, Qian Dong, Min Mao
Association between the ratio of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to apolipoprotein A-I and in-stent neoatherosclerosis: an optical coherence tomography study
Ning Gu, Yu Zeng, Xianping Long, Zhijiang Liu, Zhenglong Wang, Wei Zhang, Du Yang, Jingsong Yuan, Lei Chen, Ranzun Zhao, Bei Shi
A heart failure center model helped to promote the standardized management and improve the prognosis of patients
Zhenlong Li, Yuxia Wang, Dan Hu, Jianming Huang, Yi Zhang
Epicardial fat volume assessment and strain analysis by cardiac magnetic resonance: a novel method for evaluating microcirculation dysfunction after myocardial infarction
Kai Wang, Yueyan Wang, Yihui Zhao, Aiqi Chen, Xiao Zhang, Zengwei Cheng, Mengxiao Liu, Yichuan Ma
Evaluating the efficacy, safety, and predictors of failure following cardiac resynchronization therapy in a developing country: an ambispective, multi-center study
Yem Van Nguyen, Trang Minh Bui, Vinh Nguyen Pham, Vu Hoang Vu, Khang Duong Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc Chau
Elevated lipoprotein(a) and cardiovascular outcomes in prediabetes and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sidhartha Gautam Senapati, Vamsikalyan Borra, Lakshmi Prasanna Vaishnavi Kattamuri, Naga Vamsi Krishna Machineni, Nithya Borra, Sindhuja Kukkala, Karthikeya Ramasahayam, Kesar Prajapati, Parth R. Nayak, Santosh Kale, Akhil Jain, Ankit Vyas, Rupak Desai

Brief Report

Coronary microvascular dysfunction and right ventricular structure and function
Amélie Paquin, Michael D. Nelson, Janet Wei, Sauyeh K. Zamani, Jenna Maughan, Galen Cook-Wiens, Martha Gulati, Chrisandra Shufelt, John W. Petersen, Eileen M. Handberg, Carl J. Pepine, C. Noel Bairey Merz
Calcium and vitamin D supplementation impact on survival in patients with moderate concomitant aortic and mitral valve disease
Andrew Gaballa, Adel Hajj Ali, Joseph El Dahdah, Zoran Popovic, Tom K. Wang, Grant Reed, Leonardo Rodriguez, Brian Griffin, A. Marc Gillinov, Samir R. Kapadia, Lars G. Svensson, Milind Y. Desai