Clinical Applications of Cardiac Imaging Techniques in Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 3962
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiac computed tomography; echocardiography; multimodality imaging; cardiomyopathies; ventricular arrhythmias
Interests: cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiac computed tomography; echocardiography; multimodality imaging; cardiomyopathies; ventricular arrhythmias
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have the pleasure to announce this Special Issue on “Clinical Applications of Cardiac Imaging Techniques in Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias”. Ventricular arrhythmias are a major health issue in patients with structural heart disease (SHD). Myocardial scars play a central role in the genesis and maintenance of re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias as the coexistence of surviving myocardial fibers within fibrotic tissue leads to the formation of slow conduction pathways, dispersion of activation, and refractoriness, which constitute the milieu for ventricular arrhythmias circuits. Cardiac imaging, enabling the ventricular arrhythmogenic substrate to be characterized, has become a fundamental aid in this patient population for diagnostic, prognostic, and also procedural purposes, allowing planning and guiding of catheter ablation procedures by integrating structural and electrophysiological information and enabling effective ablation targets to be identified with increasing precision.
The aim of this Special Issue on “Clinical Applications of Cardiac Imaging Techniques in Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias” is to provide readers with contemporary knowledge on the utility of different cardiac imaging modalities (including speckle-tracking echocardiography, intracardiac echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, multidetector computed tomography, and nuclear imaging) in this clinical setting. We are therefore looking forward to receiving your research and review articles on this very interesting topic.
Dr. Gaetano Nucifora
Dr. Daniele Muser
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cardiac imaging
- Cardiac magnetic resonance
- Cardiac computed tomography
- Echocardiography
- Late gadolinium enhancement
- Nuclear imaging
- Scar
- Ventricular arrhythmias
- Catheter ablation
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
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