Vol 14, No 6 (December 31, 2024): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Editorial Commentary

Sirolimus-coated balloons for peripheral arterial disease: walking free into the future of endovascular treatment
Riccardo M. Fumagalli, Stefano Barco
Early and late outcomes after Cardioband procedure in patients with atrial and non-atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation
Piera Ciaramella, Francesco Candido, Marco Russo, Antonio Giovanni Cammardella, Amedeo Pergolini, Federico Ranocchi
Procedural success prediction in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (CTO-PCI)—the rise of the machines?
Claudiu Ungureanu, Gregor Leibundgut
Let us pay more attention to performing coronary function assessment for multivessels!
Hiroki Teragawa, Chikage Oshita, Yu Hashimoto
The best devices for superficial femoral artery, with “limited” cases and vessel preparations
Norihito Nakamura, Manabu Shiozaki, Sho Torii
Machine learning paving the way for successful antegrade crossing of total chronic coronary occlusions
Philipp Breitbart, Dirk Westermann, Grigorios Korosoglou
Randomized trial comparing a stent-avoiding with a stent-preferred strategy in complex femoropopliteal lesions
Gemmi Sufali, Martin Teraa
Sirolimus coated balloon for the treatment of femoropopliteal lesions: the new kid on the block is getting older ‘step by step’
Konstantinos P. Donas, Christos Rammos, Grigorios Korosoglou
Prolonged pre-catheterization fasting: do the risks outweigh the benefits?
Anand Shah, George A. Stouffer
Superiority of coronary paclitaxel DCBs to limus DCBs in the late angiographic outcomes: the first meta-analysis showing the differences of coronary DCBs
Kota Yamada, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Yohei Tamura, Isao Taguchi

Original Article

A computer vision model for the identification and scoring of calcium in aortic valve stenosis: a single-center experience
Tibor Poruban, Dominik Pella, Ingrid Schusterova, Marta Jakubova, Karolina Angela Sieradzka Uchnar, Marianna Barbierik Vachalcova
Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived deformation analysis of the morphologic left ventricle in adults with corrected dextro-transposition of the great arteries—insights from the CSONGRAD Registry and MAGYAR-Path Study
Árpád Kormányos, Nándor Gyenes, Zoltán Ruzsa, Alexandru Achim, Nóra Ambrus, Kálmán Havasi, Máté Vámos, Tamás Szili-Török, Csaba Lengyel, Attila Nemes
The clinical diagnostic value of right-to-left shunt in cryptogenic stroke under right heart contrast echocardiography: a retrospective case-control study
Changyin Gao, Yanjie Liu, Dong Xu
Pregnancy & cardiovascular disease: the PREG-CVD-HH registry
Dora Csengeri, Elisabeth Unger, Jessica Weimann, Michael Huntgeburth, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Tanja Zeller, Stefan Blankenberg, Paulus Kirchhof, Anke Diemert, Renate B. Schnabel, Christoph R. Sinning, Elvin Zengin-Sahm
Reporting quality of animal research in journals that published the ARRIVE 1.0 or ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines: a cross-sectional analysis of 943 studies
Yao Lin, Fanghui Yang, Binghan Shang, John E. Speich, Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Hiroki Hashida, Tobias Braun, Ali Sadoughi, Thomas Puehler, Tom F. Lue, Kaiping Zhang
Automated volumetry of core and peel intrapulmonary vasculature on computed tomography angiography for non-invasive estimation of hemodynamics in patients with pulmonary hypertension (2022 updated hemodynamic definition)
Claudius Melzig, Oliver Weinheimer, Benjamin Egenlauf, Thuy D. Do, Mark O. Wielpütz, Ekkehard Grünig, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Claus Peter Heussel, Fabian Rengier
Influence of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors on the triglyceride-glucose index in acute myocardial infarction patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Kai Wang, Tingting Fan, Fei He, Haoliang Li, Yu Fang, Guangquan Hu, Xiaochen Wang
Twins with at least one with CHD and their immunisation status in direct comparison—are both twins complying with the German immunisation recommendations?
Julia Remmele, Paul C. Helm, Jia Li, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Ulrike M. M. Bauer, Peter Ewert
The Cleveland Clinic experience of eosinophilic myocarditis in the setting of hypereosinophilic syndrome: demographics, cardiac imaging, and outcomes
Matthew Reeder, Yuichiro Okushi, Saberio Lo Presti Vega, Rohan Prasad, Richard A. Grimm, Brian P. Griffin, Bo Xu
Evaluation of myocardial perfusion imaging techniques and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis through multi-criteria decision-making method
Hasan Erdagli, Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, Berna Uzun
Predictive models of in-hospital deterioration of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention shock stage in patients with acute myocardial infarction initially presenting with stable hemodynamic condition
Takuto Mukaida, Yu Kataoka, Kota Murai, Kenichiro Sawada, Takamasa Iwai, Hideo Matama, Satoshi Honda, Masashi Fujino, Shuichi Yoneda, Kensuke Takagi, Kazuhiro Nakao, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Yoshio Tahara, Yasuhide Asaumi, Teruo Noguchi