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Cardiac Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 963

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Multimodality Imaging Director, Professor and Endowed Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Interests: multimodality imaging; advanced echo; cardiac MRI; cardiac CT; education and mentorship

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Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Interests: heart failure; cardiac transplant; valvular heart disease; novel therapeutic approaches

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Dear Colleagues,

In the United States, about 6.7 million adults over 20 years old have heart failure. The global prevalence of heart failure is estimated to range between 1% and 3% of the total population, an estimated 56.2 million people. The incidence is increasing rapidly and the current lifetime risk is at 24%. The economic and societal burden of heart failure is therefore significant.

Heart failure (HF), a condition where the heart cannot relax effectively or pump blood effectively, can stem from various underlying causes. Cardiac imaging is a cornerstone in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure, offering insights into cardiac structure and function. Imaging helps in the classification of heart failure into HFrEF, HFmrEF, or HFpEF, and plays a crucial role in the diagnosis, evaluation, management, and prognostication of heart failure. Techniques such as echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac CT enable the appropriate assessment of cardiac anatomy, ventricular function, and myocardial viability, amongst other things. These imaging modalities help identify the underlying causes of heart failure, offer detailed function, hemodynamic, and tissue characterization, and guide therapeutic decisions. Heart failure can be caused by multiple etiologies and imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and evaluation of the etiology of heart failure.

This Special Issue will discuss the current role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of HF based on a combination of original research and review papers.

Topics will include the following:

  • Epidemiology of heart failure;
  • Diagnosis of heart failure;
  • Etiology of heart failure;
  • Role of cardiac MRI in heart failure;
  • Advanced cardiac imaging modalities and heart failure;
  • Genetic cardiomyopathies.

Dr. Mahi Lakshmi Ashwath
Prof. Dr. Allen S. Anderson
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • echocardiography
  • cardiac MRI
  • myocardial viability
  • tissue characterization
  • ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
  • HFpEF
  • myocardial strain

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Cardiac Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure
by Mayuresh Chaudhari and Mahi Lakshmi Ashwath
J. Clin. Med. 2025, 14(14), 5002; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14145002 - 15 Jul 2025
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Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that results from any structural or functional impairment of ventricular filling or ejection of blood. The etiology of heart failure is multifactorial, encompassing ischemic heart disease, hypertension, valvular disorders, cardiomyopathies, and metabolic and infiltrative diseases. [...] Read more.
Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that results from any structural or functional impairment of ventricular filling or ejection of blood. The etiology of heart failure is multifactorial, encompassing ischemic heart disease, hypertension, valvular disorders, cardiomyopathies, and metabolic and infiltrative diseases. Despite advances in pharmacologic and device-based therapies, heart failure continues to carry a substantial burden of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare utilization. With the advancement and increased accessibility of cardiac imaging modalities, the diagnostic accuracy for identifying the underlying etiologies of nonischemic cardiomyopathy has significantly improved, allowing for more precise classification and tailored management strategies. This review aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the current understanding of heart failure, encompassing epidemiology, etiological factors, with a specific focus on diagnostic imaging modalities including the role of echocardiography and strain imaging, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), cardiac computed tomography (CT), and nuclear positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and recent advances in the diagnosis and management of heart failure. Full article
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