Valvular Heart Disease: Challenges and New Opportunities
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1354
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: aortic valve; tricuspid regurgitation; mitral regurgitation; valvular heart disease; echocardiography; cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiac computed tomography; multimodality imaging; cardiovascular imaging; cardiovascular disease; coronary artery disease; atherosclerosis; heart failure; myocardial infarction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in this Special Issue of JCM, entitled “Valvular Heart Disease: Challenges and New Opportunities”. As is well-known, with the aging of the population, the prevalence of acquired valvular heart disease (VHD) is rapidly growing and, today, it is among the most common causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, VHD may significantly affect the patients’ well-being and reduce their quality of life.
Although several new therapeutical options have been proposed in recent years, there are still important gaps in the understanding of the imaging and clinical parameters that should be considered for optimal patient selection, timing for referral and long-term outcome prediction. With this Special Issue, we seek to provide an overview of the latest advances in the imaging and therapeutic options for patients with VHD with a particular focus on the role of multimodality imaging assessment (including 2D and 3D echocardiography, speckle tracking echocardiography, non-invasive myocardial work assessment, cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance, nuclear imaging and fusion imaging) and imaging markers for risk stratification and outcome prediction in VHD patients.
We look forward to receiving your submissions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Federico Fortuni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aortic valve
- aortic stenosis
- aortic regurgitation
- tricuspid regurgitation
- mitral regurgitation
- mitral stenosis
- valvular heart disease
- echocardiography
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- cardiac computed tomography
- multimodality imaging
- cardiovascular imaging
