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Recent Developments in Heart Failure Imaging

Thomas H. Marwick, MD, PhD^_*,_*, Subha V. Raman, MD, Ignasi Carrió, MD, Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD

^_* Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

^_* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Thomas H. Marwick, Cleveland Clinic, J1-5, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 (Email: marwict{at}ccf.org).

Despite the central role of echocardiography in its primary assessment, heart failure is a condition in which access to multiple cardiovascular imaging modalities is important. A number of important observations relative to this topic have been made in the last year, including the assessment of left ventricular synchrony, myocardial mechanics, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, metabolic imaging, assessment of myocardial viability, and fusion imaging.

Key Words: heart failure • echocardiogram • cardiac magnetic resonance • myocardial scintigraphy • imaging • ventricular