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ReviewEuropean heart journal. Imaging methods and practice2025

Cardiovascular imaging in 2024: review of current research and innovations.

Andrea Barison, Ana Teresa Timoteo, Saloua El Messaoudi, Sonia Borodzicz-Jazdzyk, Sara Moscatelli, Giulia Elena Mandoli, Christina Luong, Eylem Levelt, Arti Anushka Ramkisoensing, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh and 5 more

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Review in European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Andrea BarisonCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9042-340X
Ana Teresa TimoteoCardiology Department, Santa Marta Hospital, Unidade Local Saúde São José, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6061-9663
Saloua El MessaoudiDepartment of Cardiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0804-2071
Sonia Borodzicz-JazdzykFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9066-7401
Sara MoscatelliInherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7370-1057
Giulia Elena MandoliDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, Division of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3184-3006
Christina LuongDivision of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7514-6069
Eylem LeveltThe Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-7102
Arti Anushka RamkisoensingDepartment of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9036-6935
Zahra Raisi-EstabraghWilliam Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7757-5465
Alexios AntonopoulosFirst Cardiology Department, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Sarah Moharem-ElgamalCardiology Department, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital and Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8007-0476
Riccardo LigaCardiology Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-5604
Gianluca PontoneDepartment of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1339-6679
Danilo NegliaCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0016-9538

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular imaging saw significant advancements in 2024, impacting technology, pathophysiology, and clinical applications. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the most impactful research in cardiovascular imaging published in 2024, highlighting technological advancements, as well as research on ischaemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and heart failure. It emphasizes the crucial role of artificial intelligence, large-scale studies, and technical improvements across echocardiography, cardiovascular magnetic resonance, computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine. In the context of ischaemic heart disease, non-invasive imaging strategies improve patient management and reduce invasive coronary angiograms and unnecessary follow-up testing. Computed tomography plaque characterization is a growing area of research, with potential for predicting disease severity, atherosclerosis progression, and clinical outcomes. In valvular heart disease, several imaging studies focused not only on transcatheter treatments for aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, and tricuspid regurgitation but also on specific conditions such as mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction. Finally, for heart failure and cardiomyopathies, imaging plays a vital role in early diagnosis and risk assessment, with newer techniques surpassing traditional methods in providing morpho-function characterization and in predicting long-term outcomes.

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cardiovascular magnetic resonancecomputed tomographyechocardiographymultimodality imagingpositron emission tomographysingle photon emission tomography

Identifiers

PMID40469529
PMCPMC12134531

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