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 2652
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multimodality imaging; advanced echo; cardiac MRI; cardiac CT; education and mentorship
Special Issue Information
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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