Advancements in Cardiac Imaging: Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutics

Dear Colleagues,

The extensive use of non-invasive imaging methods is certainly one of the aspects that best characterize modern cardiology. These methods are currently available to determine an accurate and timely diagnosis of the main cardiovascular pathologies and to provide an important aid for choosing the best therapeutic strategy, with particular regard for new interventional procedures and new drugs available.

The implementation of percutaneous interventional procedures for the treatment of structural heart disease and the new management of chronic ischemic heart disease, metabolic storage diseases, and heart failure in clinical practice have required imaging methods to provide increasingly sophisticated evaluation parameters in order to identify patients suitable to undergo certain procedures and adopt adequate therapeutic strategies. Therefore, currently, cardiac patient management cannot ignore the complete and precise information provided by non-invasive diagnostic methods such as echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardio CT, and nuclear cardiology, which is useful to define the correct diagnosis and make an adequate prognostic stratification. With the expansion of imaging options and the paradigmatic shift to multimodality imaging, we need to focus and expand our research efforts to help identify areas of CV medicine where imaging adds value by improving diagnosis and the prediction of therapeutic benefit.

Dr. Ilaria Dentamaro
Guest Editor

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