2025
Significance of Coronary Artery Calcifications and Ischemic Electrocardiographic Changes Among Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
Kokkinidis D, Kyriakoulis I, Chui P, Agarwal R, Liu Y, Khera R, Sinusas A, Velazquez E, Miller E, Feher A. Significance of Coronary Artery Calcifications and Ischemic Electrocardiographic Changes Among Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. JACC Advances 2025, 4: 101618. PMID: 39983619, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101618.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCoronary artery calcificationMyocardial perfusion imagingIschemic ECG changesLow event ratesECG changesNormal perfusionArtery calcificationPerfusion imagingSingle-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomographyStress ECGCAC evaluationPresence of coronary artery calcificationSuspected coronary artery diseaseMedian follow-upEvent ratesIschemic electrocardiographic changesAnalysis to patientsComposite endpoint rateCoronary artery diseaseTomography/computed tomographyPrognostic informationMACE rateFollow-upSubgroup analysisAdverse outcomes
2023
Impaired left-ventricular global longitudinal strain by feature-tracking cardiac MRI predicts mortality in systemic sclerosis
Feher A, Miller E, Peters D, Mojibian H, Sinusas A, Hinchcliff M, Baldassarre L. Impaired left-ventricular global longitudinal strain by feature-tracking cardiac MRI predicts mortality in systemic sclerosis. Rheumatology International 2023, 43: 849-858. PMID: 36894756, DOI: 10.1007/s00296-023-05294-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLate gadolinium enhancementLV-GLSSystemic sclerosisWorse survivalClinical indicationsImpaired left ventricular global longitudinal strainLeft ventricular global longitudinal strainPresence of LGECMR strainLV cardiac indexWorse LV-GLSLV ejection fractionCox regression analysisGlobal longitudinal strainLV cardiac outputGlobal radialCardiac indexOverall survivalRetrospective cohortEjection fractionPrognostic valueAdverse outcomesCardiac outputGadolinium enhancementRV strain