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Background: No agreement has been reached for the best surgical treatment for patients with chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Our objective was to meta-analyze the clinical outcomes of repair and replacement.Methods: A computerized search was performed using Pubmed, Embase, Ovid medline and Cochrane Library. The search terms "ischemic or ischaemic" and "mitral valve" and "repair or replacement or annuloplasty" and "coronary artery bypass grafting" were entered as MeSH terms and keywords. The primary outcomes were operative mortality and late mortality. Secondary outcomes were 2+ or greater recurrence of mitral regurgitation and reoperation rate.Results: Eleven studies were eligible for the final meta-analysis. These studies included a total of 1750 patients, 60.4 % of whom received mitral valve repair. All patients underwent concomitant coronary artery bypass graft. No differences were found in operative mortality (summary odds ratio [OR] 0.65; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.43-1.00; p = 0.05), late mortality (summary hazard ratio [HR] 0.87; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.67-1.14; p = 0.31) and reoperation (summary odds ratio [OR] 1.47; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.90-2.38; p = 0.12). Regurgitation recurrence was lower in the replacement group (summary odds ratio [OR] 5.41; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 3.12-9.38; p < 0.001).Conclusion: In patients with chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation during CABG, mitral valve replacement is associated with lower recurrence of regurgitation. No differences were found regarding survival and reoperation rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: With multifaceted imaging capabilities, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is playing a progressively increasing role in the management of various cardiac conditions. A global registry that harmonizes data from international centers, with participation policies that aim to be open and inclusive of all CMR programs, can support future evidence-based growth in CMR. Methods: The Global CMR Registry (GCMR) was established in 2013 under the auspices of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). The GCMR team has developed a web-based data infrastructure, data use policy and participation agreement, data-harmonizing methods, and site-training tools based on results from an international survey of CMR programs. Results: At present, 17 CMR programs have established a legal agreement to participate in GCMR, amongst them 10 have contributed CMR data, totaling 62,456 studies. There is currently a predominance of CMR centers with more than 10 years of experience (65%), and the majority are located in the United States (63%). The most common clinical indications for CMR have included assessment of cardiomyopathy (21%), myocardial viability (16%), stress CMR perfusion for chest pain syndromes (16%), and evaluation of etiology of arrhythmias or planning of electrophysiological studies (15%) with assessment of cardiomyopathy representing the most rapidly growing indication in the past decade. Most CMR studies involved the use of gadolinium-based contrast media (95%). Conclusions: We present the goals, mission and vision, infrastructure, preliminary results, and challenges of the GCMR. Trial registration Identification number on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02806193. Registered 17 June 2016. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12968-016-0321-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

An abstract of the article "Fibrotic content of LV myocardium quantified by CMR characterizes left atrial sizes and total left atrial emptying function incremental to LV functional parameters," by Yucheng Chen and colleagues is presented.

An abstract of the conference paper "Quantitative of myocardial extracellular volume fraction improves characterization of fibrotic burden in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy beyond visual assessment with late gadolinium enhancement," by Ravi Shah and colleagues is presented.

Background: Myocardial edema in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is commonly imaged using dark-blood short tau inversion recovery turbo spin echo (STIR-TSE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). The technique is sensitive to cardiac motion and coil sensitivity variation, leading to myocardial signal nonuniformity and impeding reliable depiction of edematous tissues. T2-prepared balanced steady state free precession (T2p-bSSFP) imaging has been proposed, but its contrast is low, and averaging is commonly needed. T2 mapping is useful but requires a long scan time and breathholding. We propose here a single-shot magnetization prepared sequence that increases the contrast between edema and normal myocardium and apply it to myocardial edema imaging. Methods: A magnetization preparation module (T2STIR) is designed to exploit the simultaneous elevation of T1 and T2 in edema to improve the depiction of edematous myocardium. The module tips magnetization down to the –z axis after T2 preparation. Transverse magnetization is sampled at the fat null point using bSSFP readout and allows for single-shot myocardial edema imaging. The sequence (T2STIR-bSSFP) was studied for its contrast behavior using simulation and phantoms. It was then evaluated on 7 healthy subjects and 7 AMI patients by comparing it to T2p-bSSFP and T2 mapping using the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and the contrast ratio as performance indices. Results: In simulation and phantom studies, T2STIR-bSSFP had improved contrast between edema and normal myocardium compared with the other two edema imaging techniques. In patients, the CNR of T2STIR-bSSFP was higher than T2p-bSSFP (5.9 ± 2.6 vs. 2.8 ± 2.0, P < 0.05) but had no significant difference compared with that of the T2 map (T2 map: 6.6 ± 3.3 vs. 5.9 ± 2.6, P = 0.62). The contrast ratio of T2STIR-bSSFP (2.4 ± 0.8) was higher than that of the T2 map (1.3 ± 0.1, P < 0.01) and T2p-bSSFP (1.4 ± 0.5, P < 0.05). Conclusion: T2STIR-bSSFP has improved contrast between edematous and normal myocardium compared with commonly used bSSFP-based edema imaging techniques. T2STIR-bSSFP also differentiates between fat that was robustly suppressed and fluids around the heart. The technique is useful for single-shot edema imaging in AMI patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract of a conference paper related to characterization of fibrotic burden in the remote myocardium after acute infarction which helps in prediction of changes in functions by Damien Mandry and colleagues is presented.

An abstract of the conference paper "Quantitative T1 mapping and the fibrotic index in normal healthy volunteers; relationship to aging and cardiac dimensions," by Tomas G. Neilan and colleagues is presented.

An abstract of a conference paper related to CMR quantification of infarct tissue heterogeneity and remote myocardial fibrotic burden during convalescent phase following acute myocardial infarction by Bobby Heydari and colleagues is presented.

Background: No agreement has been reached for the best surgical treatment for patients with chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Our objective was to meta-analyze the clinical outcomes of repair and replacement., Methods: A computerized search was performed using Pubmed, Embase, Ovid medline and Cochrane Library. The search terms "ischemic or ischaemic" and "mitral valve" and "repair or replacement or annuloplasty" and "coronary artery bypass grafting" were entered as MeSH terms and keywords. The primary outcomes were operative mortality and late mortality. Secondary outcomes were 2+ or greater recurrence of mitral regurgitation and reoperation rate., Results: Eleven studies were eligible for the final meta-analysis. These studies included a total of 1750 patients, 60.4 % of whom received mitral valve repair. All patients underwent concomitant coronary artery bypass graft. No differences were found in operative mortality (summary odds ratio [OR] 0.65; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.43-1.00; p = 0.05), late mortality (summary hazard ratio [HR] 0.87; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.67-1.14; p = 0.31) and reoperation (summary odds ratio [OR] 1.47; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.90-2.38; p = 0.12). Regurgitation recurrence was lower in the replacement group (summary odds ratio [OR] 5.41; 95 % confidence interval [CI] 3.12-9.38; p < 0.001)., Conclusion: In patients with chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation during CABG, mitral valve replacement is associated with lower recurrence of regurgitation. No differences were found regarding survival and reoperation rates.

Background: A higher prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in people with diabetes. We investigated the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) subclass profiles and alterations of particle size in CHD patients with diabetes or without diabetes., Methods: Plasma HDL subclasses were quantified in CHD by 1-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with immunodetection., Results: Although the particle size of HDL tend to small, the mean levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C) and total cholesterol (TC) have achieved normal or desirable for CHD patients with or without diabetes who administered statins therapy. Fasting plasma glucose (FPG), triglyceride (TG), TC, LDL-C concentrations, and HDL₃ (HDL(3b) and (3a)) contents along with Gensini Score were significantly higher; but those of HDL-C, HDL(2b+preβ2), and HDL(2a) were significantly lower in CHD patients with diabetes versus CHD patients without diabetes; The preβ₁-HDL contents did not differ significantly between these groups. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that Gensini Score was significantly and independently predicted by HDL(2a), and HDL(2b+preβ2)., Conclusions: The abnormality of HDL subpopulations distribution and particle size may contribute to CHD risk in diabetes patients. The HDL subclasses distribution may help in severity of coronary artery and risk stratification, especially in CHD patients with therapeutic LDL, TG and HDL levels.