Imaging News

Patients with suspected large vessel occlusion stroke transferred directly to the angiography suite at admission had better functional outcomes compared with those transferred to the CT suite, a researcher reported.

Subclinical impairments in left ventricular systolic function were associated with risk for future incident HF among older adults, according to research published in JAMA Cardiology.

Professional athletes who had COVID-19 rarely presented with cardiac events or injury after undergoing return-to-play testing, researchers reported.

The presence of retinal ischemic perivascular lesions may signal that a patient also has CVD, according to data published in EClinicalMedicine.

Intensive BP reduction in hypertension was associated with greater changes in hippocampal volume, but not any other MRI biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, compared with standard treatment, according to data published in JAMA Neurology.

Higher muscle mass was associated with lower CVD and mortality in men and women, but in women, high fat, regardless of muscle mass level, was linked to lower CVD mortality risk, researchers reported.

Women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy or hypertension after pregnancy had significant differences in left ventricular structure and function over time, researchers reported.

The medical community during the past year has learned, among other things, that SARS-CoV-2 has numerous short-term and long-term consequences on the CV system.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA. She is a noninvasive cardiologist and professor of medicine in the division of cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University. She holds the Sarah Ross Soter Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, is the section director of preventive cardiology and women’s cardiovascular health and director of lipid clinics and is the vice chair of wellness for the department of internal medicine at Ohio State.

Using cardiac MRI, researchers found myocardial injury in more than half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 and elevated troponin a few months after hospital discharge.