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ReviewCardiac failure review2023

Role of Imaging in Cardiomyopathies.

Vincenzo Castiglione, Alberto Aimo, Giancarlo Todiere, Andrea Barison, Iacopo Fabiani, Giorgia Panichella, Dario Genovesi, Lucrezia Bonino, Alberto Clemente, Filippo Cademartiri and 4 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Cardiac failure review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Revisiting Secondary Dilative Cardiomyopathy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Heart Failure in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.Cardiac failure review · 2026
    Review
  3. Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vincenzo CastiglioneCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Alberto AimoCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Giancarlo TodiereCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Andrea BarisonCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Iacopo FabianiCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Giorgia PanichellaCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Dario GenovesiCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Lucrezia BoninoCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Alberto ClementeCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Filippo CademartiriCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Alberto GiannoniCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Claudio PassinoCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Michele EmdinCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Giuseppe VergaroCardiothoracic Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Pisa, Italy.
Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio · ITScuola Superiore Sant'Anna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging has a central role in the diagnosis, classification, and clinical management of cardiomyopathies. While echocardiography is the first-line technique, given its wide availability and safety, advanced imaging, including cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), nuclear medicine and CT, is increasingly needed to refine the diagnosis or guide therapeutic decision-making. In selected cases, such as in transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis or in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, the demonstration of histological features of the disease can be avoided when typical findings are observed at bone-tracer scintigraphy or CMR, respectively. Findings from imaging techniques should always be integrated with data from the clinical, electrocardiographic, biomarker, genetic and functional evaluation to pursue an individualised approach to patients with cardiomyopathy.

Indexed as

cardiac magnetic resonancecardiomyopathiesechocardiographyImagingnuclear medicine

Identifiers

PMID37427006
PMCPMC10326670
OpenAlexW4378213045

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Registered trials

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