Abstract:Cardiovascular disease risk stratification and prognostication are very important for treatment planning. In addition, for a growing number of patients with overt symptomatic heart failure or asymptomatic but have structural heart disease, accurate risk stratification is essential. Conventional clinical cardiovascular risk factors, several biomarkers and echo-Doppler indexes are generally used to satisfy this need. However, non-invasive approaches to direct structural and tissue characterization of the myocard… Show more
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