The year 2014 in the European Heart Journal--Cardiovascular Imaging: part II.

The European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging, created in 2012, has become a reference for publishing multimodality cardiovascular imaging scientific and review papers. The impressive 2014 impact factor of 4.105 confirms the important position of our journal. In this part, we summarize the most important studies from the journal's third year, with specific emphasis on cardiomyopathies, congenital heart diseases, valvular heart diseases, and heart failure.

[1]  K. Khunti,et al.  Subclinical diastolic dysfunction in young adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus: a multiparametric contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance pilot study assessing potential mechanisms. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[2]  D. Capodanno,et al.  Association of tricuspid regurgitation with clinical and echocardiographic outcomes after percutaneous mitral valve repair with the MitraClip System: 30-day and 12-month follow-up from the GRASP Registry. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[3]  C. Tribouilloy,et al.  Quantitative assessment of primary mitral regurgitation using left ventricular volumes: a three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic pilot study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[4]  L. Ling,et al.  A comprehensive evaluation of myocardial fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: linking genotype with fibrotic phenotype. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[5]  C. Çevik,et al.  Multimodality imaging for pre-clinical assessment of Fabry's cardiomyopathy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[6]  M. Friedrich,et al.  Predictive value of CMR criteria for LV functional improvement in patients with acute myocarditis. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[7]  A. Yıldırım,et al.  Effects of percutaneous closure of atrial septal defect on left atrial mechanical and conduction functions. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[8]  B. Khandheria,et al.  The mosaic of the cardiac amyloidosis diagnosis: role of imaging in subtypes and stages of the disease. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[9]  D. Berman,et al.  A revised methodology for aortic-valvar complex calcium quantification for transcatheter aortic valve implantation. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[10]  U. Sechtem,et al.  Myocardial fibrosis imaging based on T1-mapping and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) measurement in muscular dystrophy patients: diagnostic value compared with conventional late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[11]  J. Jögi,et al.  Young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but not subjects at risk, show decreased myocardial perfusion reserve quantified with CMR. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[12]  L. Bang,et al.  Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a two-stage recovery of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function as determined by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[13]  C. Lewis,et al.  Left atrial dimension and traditional cardiovascular risk factors predict 20-year clinical cardiovascular events in young healthy adults: the CARDIA study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[14]  L. Epstein,et al.  Rescue transoesophageal echocardiography for refractory haemodynamic instability during transvenous lead extraction. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[15]  B. Beleslin,et al.  Prognostic role of coronary flow reserve for left ventricular functional improvement after cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[16]  Christopher M Haggerty,et al.  Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot suffer from intra- and inter-ventricular cardiac dyssynchrony: a cardiac magnetic resonance study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[17]  E. Saloux,et al.  Major congenital coronary artery anomalies in a paediatric and adult population: a prospective echocardiographic study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[18]  G. Maurer,et al.  European multicentre validation study of the accuracy of E/e' ratio in estimating invasive left ventricular filling pressure: EURO-FILLING study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[19]  T. Marwick,et al.  Biomarker and imaging responses to spironolactone in subclinical diabetic cardiomyopathy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[20]  J. Svendsen,et al.  The diagnostic performance of imaging methods in ARVC using the 2010 Task Force criteria. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[21]  H. Torp,et al.  Quantification of aortic regurgitation using high-pulse repetition frequency three-dimensional colour Doppler. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[22]  J. M. Moya Mur,et al.  Cor triatriatum sinister. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[23]  Y. Kagaya,et al.  Enhanced [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation in the right ventricular free wall predicts long-term prognosis of patients with pulmonary hypertension: a preliminary observational study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[24]  Carl Roobottom,et al.  Assessment of the myocardium with cardiac computed tomography. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[25]  G. Schuler,et al.  The potential additional diagnostic value of assessing for pericardial effusion on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with suspected myocarditis. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[26]  M. Enriquez-Sarano,et al.  Functional mitral regurgitation in patients with aortic stenosis: prevalence, clinical correlates and pathophysiological determinants: a quantitative prospective study. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[27]  Marcus Carlsson,et al.  Combined preoperative information using a bullseye plot from speckle tracking echocardiography, cardiac CT scan, and MRI scan: targeted left ventricular lead implantation in patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[28]  D. Dutka,et al.  Mechanisms of atrial mitral regurgitation: insights using 3D transoesophageal echo. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[29]  J. McGhie,et al.  Abnormal left ventricular rotation and twist in adult patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[30]  B. Khandheria,et al.  Accessory mitral valve tissue: an updated review of the literature. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[31]  R. Erbel,et al.  Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: an integrated multi-imaging approach. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[32]  M. Laule,et al.  Recovery of left ventricular and left atrial mechanics in various entities of aortic stenosis 12 months after TAVI. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[33]  B. Gersh,et al.  Deformation patterns in genotyped patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[34]  R. Razavi,et al.  Assessment of right ventricular volumes in hypoplastic left heart syndrome by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[35]  B. Wintersperger,et al.  Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging predictors of pregnancy outcomes in women with coarctation of the aorta. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[36]  Y. Tayyareci,et al.  The evaluation of mitral valve stenosis: comparison of transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[37]  E. Omerovic,et al.  Contrast echocardiography reveals apparently normal coronary perfusion in a rat model of stress-induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[38]  R. V. D. van den Brink,et al.  Differentiation of thrombus from pannus as the cause of acquired mechanical prosthetic heart valve obstruction by non-invasive imaging: a review of the literature. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[39]  E. Akkaya,et al.  Aortic intracardiac echocardiography-guided septal puncture during mitral valvuloplasty. , 2013, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[40]  T. Biering-Sørensen,et al.  Concordance and reproducibility between M-mode, tissue Doppler imaging, and two-dimensional strain imaging in the assessment of mitral annular displacement and velocity in patients with various heart conditions. , 2012, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[41]  D. Marco,et al.  Integrated reverse left and right ventricular remodelling after MitraClip implantation in functional mitral regurgitation: an echocardiographic study , 2014 .

[42]  Helmut Baumgartner,et al.  Imaging of congenital heart disease in adults: choice of modalities. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.

[43]  B. Khandheria,et al.  Left ventricular twist in left ventricular noncompaction. , 2014, European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging.