Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common defect at birth. Effective training for clinical professionals essential in order to provide a high standard of care patients. Visual aids teaching complex CHD have remained mostly unchanged recent years, with traditional methods such as diagrams and specimens still delivering educational content. Diagrams other 2D visualisations are cases artis...

Background Obesity is associated with cardiac remodelling with increased left ventricular mass and end-diastolic volume. CMR is a unique technique to evaluate cardiac morphology and function in obese individuals. Among CMR techniques, myocardial tagging allows to quantify myocardial strain and left ventricular rotation along the RR cycle (1). The aim of this preliminary study was to explore the...

Background The right ventricular (RV) morphology and function are important parameters for the diagnosis of cardiopulmonary diseases and serve as predictors for the longterm outcome. To date there are little data about right heart characteristics due to its complex anatomy. Since cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold-standard for the evaluation of left and right cardiac anatomy and funct...

Methods CMR based multi-modality imaging including echocardiogram, cardiac MRI, as well as PET-CT were performed as for patients with suspected cardiac mass. Management strategy was decided according to patient basic status (age and surgical risk) as well as characteristics of the mass derived from multi-modality imaging including location, morphology, border, metastasis or not, tissue characte...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy is an established treatment modality in heart failure. Though non-response is a serious issue. To address this issue, a good understanding of the electrical activation during underlying intrinsic ventricular activation, biventricular as well as right- and left ventricular pacing is needed. By interpreting the 12-lead electrocardiogram, possible reasons for subo...