6th Meeting 2011

A very successful 6^th BSCMR Annual Meeting was held on 16 March 2011 at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester. The final programme for the meeting is available here: BSCMR Meeting 11 Programme A4.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 6^th BSCMR Meeting CMR Investigators’ Award as follows:

• 1^st Prize: Dr Alex Pitcher (Oxford)
• 2^nd Prize: Dr Christopher Steadman (Leicester)
• 3^rd Prize: Dr Ankur Gulati (London)
• 4^th Prize: Dr Tim Fairbairn (Leeds)

 

Abstracts from the 6^th BSCMR Meeting

Author Oral Presentation: Abstract Title Fairbairn, Timothy Assessment of intermediate coronary stenosis: a comparison of fractional flow reserve, quantitative coronary angiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and single photon emission computed tomography Steadman, Christopher Determinants and functional significance of microvascular dysfunction in isolated, severe aortic stenosis. Gulati, Ankur Relationship between late gadolinium enhancement patterns and outcome in patients with new onset heart failure Pitcher, Alex Visualisation of aortic flow disturbance in Marfan syndrome by 4D phase-contrast CMR

 

Author Poster Presentation: Abstract Title Larghat, Abdulghani M Assessment of myocardial blood flow in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients using first pass perfusion – CMR and T1 saturated Fermi deconvolution modelling. Jabbour, Andrew Multimodality imaging in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): comparison between cardiovascular magnetic resonance, cardiac computed tomography and echocardiography Zemrak, Filip Indirect assessment of right ventricular function by TAPSE and fractional shortening post-ST elevation myocardial infarction Jones, Daniel A MR imaging pre and post pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation: can a blinded investigator identify RF and cryo lesions? Scott, Andrew D MRI detects coronary vessel wall thickening with age in healthy subjects Borg, AN Comparison of harmonic phase analysis with local sine wave modeling for the assessment of circumferential myocardial strain using tagged cardiac magnetic resonance images Borg, AN No long-term adverse effects of childhood growth hormone treatment on left ventricular structure and function in patients with Turner syndrome Carpenter, John-Paul Worldwide survey of T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance in thalassaemia Zaman, A Assessment of myocardial perfusion CMR in left main stem disease Zaman, A Investigating revascularisation of chronic totally occluded coronary arteries by myocardial perfusion CMR Chan, Cheuk F A randomised controlled trial of interferon treatment in Behçet’s disease correlated with change in carotid atherosclerosis. Payne, Alexander R Bright blood T2 weighted MRI has higher diagnostic accuracy than dark blood MRI in acute MI Payne, Alexander R The index of microvascular resistance at the end of primary PCI predicts myocardial salvage early post-MI Payne, Alexander R Feasibility and utility of cardiac MRI for early risk assessment after acute ST elevation MI McComb, C Correlation between left ventricular strain as measured by DENSE and transmural extent of infarct scar Bull, S Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging identifies differential ventricular remodelling in patients with bicuspid vs tricuspid aortic valve disease Bull, S CMR improves the diagnostic yield of bicuspid valve disease in aortic stenosis He, Taigang Non-local means denoising for myocardial T2* measurement Sado, Daniel M The distribution of hypertrophy in Anderson-Fabry disease Sado, Daniel M The quantification and role of diffuse myocardial fibrosis in familial dilated cardiomyopathy – an equilibrium contrast CMR study Swoboda, PPL Reproducibility of strain and twist measurements calculated using CSPAMM tagging McAlindon, E Prevalence of non-cardiac pathology on cardiovascular magnetic resonance studies Fairbairn, TA Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of increased myocardial blood flow in response to the cold pressor test Steadman, Christopher D Comparison and reproducibility of standard and high temporal resolution myocardial  tissue tagging in patients with severe aortic stenosis Steadman, Christopher D Gender differences in left ventricular geometry and determinants of myocardial perfusion reserve in patients with isolated, severe aortic stenosis Mahmod, Masliza Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) detects subclinical cardiomyopathy in asymptomatic patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and normal echocardiography Gulati, Ankur The prevalence of electrocardiographic abnormalities in a dilated cardiomyopathy cohort characterised by cardiovascular magnetic resonance