Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The past 12 months have been busy for SCMR. When I became president nearly a year ago, I certainly could not have imagined that my tenure would be dominated by a global pandemic. There’s nothing like an immediate crisis to focus the attention! COVID not only galvanized us as a scientific community but also illustrated in real time how CMR can make a meaningful impact on the well being of our patients.
SCMR reacted quickly and early, producing several publications that helped guide members on how to run their CMR practices during the crisis. With many of us practicing remotely to some degree, SCMR educational content was made readily available to members free of charge. We produced several highly successful online webinars, including the CMR case-based series, which attracted large global audiences. We also pivoted from the traditional in person meeting format to produce our first virtual and highly successful level 1 workshop in June 2020.
While the COVID crisis continued unabated, SCMR embarked on several other important priorities, including the rollout of our new membership pricing scheme, making membership more equitable by tying cost of membership to the GDP level of a member’s country of origin.
As the new year has dawned, we look forward to our first ever virtual Annual Scientific Meeting (#SCMR2021) in February 18-20, 2021. Highlights will include a debate and panel discussion on the role of CMR in COVID as well as a focus on innovative CMR techniques and applications. With this new online format, we hope to be able to bring CMR to practitioners all over the globe.
COVID has changed us all both personally and professionally. SCMR too has adapted and emerged stronger than before. The society is in great shape and well situated, both financially and strategically, to expand and take on many new initiatives.
It has been a privilege to serve as your president, an honor that I have thoroughly enjoyed. I have made many close friends and gotten to know you, the members, even better than before. As my presidency draws to a close, I am excited for the future of our society and all the great things to come.
I look forward to seeing you at #SCMR2021
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James Carr, MD, FSCMR
SCMR President
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The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) is hosting the SCMR Virtual Scientific Sessions 2021 on February 18 - February 20, 2021. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Precise. Predictive. Personal.” We are excited to bring together experts from around the world to advance your knowledge of the field.
With hours of both live and on-demand content, we are confident that you will be able to ‘create’ a conference that meets your expectations. The entire conference will be available to registrants for 3 months after the conference ends.
Register now and don’t miss out!
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- Opening Plenary, Debate, and Discussion on the role of CMR in patients with COVID-19
- Pre-Conference Courses – "Introduction to CMR" and "Pediatric & CHD CMR"
- Debates on the role of CMR in ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, and parametric mapping
- Early Career and Professional Development Sessions
- Scientific Sessions highlighting breakthrough developments in new CMR techniques, early translational studies, and clinical validation of CMR in cardiovascular medicine
- SCMR-ISMRM Workshop – "Advanced CMR of Cardiac Mechanics and Hemodynamics: Towards Individualized Evaluation of Cardiovascular Disease"
- Technologist Track Sessions
- Social Networking Activities
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Circle CVI Virtual Customer Appreciation Event
Thursday, February 18
12:00 – 1:30 PM CST
Early Career Reception
Friday, February 19
12:45 – 1:45 PM CST
Registration Coming Soon
Circle CVI Virtual Customer Appreciation Event
Friday, February 19
5:30 - 6:30 PM CST
Women in CMR Networking Session
Saturday, February 20
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CST
If you would like to attend, please register here.
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#SCMR21 Diamond Supporter: Circle Cardiovascular Imaging |
Symposium: The Future of Cardiovascular MR Imaging Summit
A Symphony Academy™ Medical Education Panel Discussion
Brought to you by Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
Friday, February 19 from 12:50 – 1:40 PM CST
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#SCMR21 Diamond Supporter: Siemens Healthineers |
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Thank you to #SCMR2021 Sponsors:
(as of January 25, 2021)
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Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc.
Cohesic, Inc.
Imricor
Inteleos
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission
Medis Medical Imaging
NeoSoft
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Real-world Use of CMR in Tertiary Referral Centres for Cardiomyopathy - insights from the ESC EORP Cardiomyopathy Registry
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Expert consensus statements and international societal guidelines recommend CMR in suspected cardiomyopathy for diagnosis, assessing therapeutic response & risk-stratification. However, recently published data from the ESC EORP Cardiomyopathy Registry (n=3208) has found that most cardiomyopathy diagnoses were made based on TTE imaging alone – in fact, less than one-third of patients enrolled in the registry underwent CMR at all (1 year follow-up) and the use varied greatly between cardiomyopathy subtypes, clinical profiles of patients, and European tertiary referral centres.
Regardless of the potential value of CMR in this setting, the Registry provides humbling real-life data on the current use of CMR in patients with cardiomyopathies. The authors argue this gap between society recommendations and clinical practice needs to be better understood and the data utilized to promote wider availability, training, and adequate reimbursement strategies to increase utilization for better patient value.
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Thank You to our 2020 Donors |
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SCMR is seeking a volunteer to serve as its webmaster.
Those who wish to be considered should:
~ Have web and/or social media experience
~ Include a one page cover letter with relevant experience
~ Be a member in good standing for five consecutive years (three years for Early Career candidates)
Deadline to submit has been extended to Monday February 22, 2021
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CMR at Oregon Health & Science University
by Ahmad Masri, MD, MS
The CMR program at Oregon Health & Science University is a multifaceted clinical and research program with a total of 8 faculty spanning the disciplines of Cardiothoracic Radiology and Cardiology (adult and pediatric). We are a multi-vendor site with Philips and Siemens clinical and research magnets, and currently in the process of acquiring a PET/CMR and have an onsite cyclotron. We also have an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship tailored to the interests of the trainee. We have three main areas of research focus including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and amyloidosis (Ahmad Masri and Babak Nazer), adult congenital heart disease (Craig Broberg), and CMR in Pediatric Cardiology applications (Lars Grosse-Wortmann). We have many collaborations in these disease areas, and participate in several multicenter efforts including HCMR and the CMR sub-study of EXPLORER-HCM trial (mavacamten vs placebo in HCM) among others. Our goal is to further leverage CMR to develop endpoints for many of our research programs. One recent example is the use of CMR to study the effectiveness of high-intensity ultrasound catheter ablation to generate deep mid-myocardial lesions in a swine model (PMID 33385570, see Figure). We are proud to be part of the SCMR community and look forward to continued collaborations in the near future.
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Each month we would like to share with you some useful tips and tricks, which we have collected over the years while scanning thousands of patients for CMR examinations. During the year we will try and help you tackle most challenges in the CMR lab; from arrhythmias to zipper artefacts, and angiograms to VENCS. We hope you will find these scanning hacks helpful. In this first edition I feel it fitting that we should start at the beginning. I truly feel this is the most important step in achieving a successful CMR examination.
~Chris (Benny) Lawton, SCMR Technologist Committee
Preparation is Paramount
For those of you who are luckily enough to have a prep room in their unit, I would advocate utilising this fantastic resource for every patient. It is the perfect space where you can give a full explanation of the CMR examination. Try to describe the aims of the test without going into too much detail. Explain what is expected of the patient during the examination, and how not following the instructions would impact negatively on the study and therefore the results. It is recommended for some patients that you practice the breathing instructions with them, after all practice makes perfect. At this point you will find out if the patient finds it difficult to hold their breath on expiration, and then you can commence the study on inspiration.
Other tasks to complete in the prep room include:
- Shaving chest hair – I strongly recommend using an electric razor!
- Apply a skin preparation gel to the chest prior to placing the electrodes.
- 12 lead EKG prior to stress CMR examinations
- Cannulating the patient
Lastly, before entering the scanner room, I will make sure that all the patient’s questions have been answered, and any areas of uncertainty have been addressed.
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The SCMR Online Learning Portal
Here are links to specific subject areas that include CME.
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Physics (CME): Basic magnetic resonance physics, basic pulse sequences, advanced pulse sequences, and safety
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A 70-year-old female with a past medical history of asthma presented to the Emergency Department for further evaluation of atypical chest pain, orthopnea, and progressive dyspnea on exertion. Initial laboratory findings showed markedly elevated high-sensitivity troponin T (1,200 ng/L), NT-pro BNP (4,400 pg/mL), and hypereosinophilia (6.48 x 109/L).
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A 34 year old naval officer, otherwise fit and healthy, with no known family history of cardiomyopathies, presented with chest pain (CP), poorly tolerated atrial fibrillation and progressive hypotension. An echocardiogram showed asymmetric septal hypertrophy, with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and severe left atrial enlargement.
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Twitter Clinic Tutorials – Tips 101 Videos |
Get a healthy dose of Twitter with tips brought to you by #SCMRAweSoMe members Pushpa Shivaram and Ryan Daly.
They’ll navigate you through the hot spots of twitter, get you up to speed on how to engage and invite you to join the Cardiac MR Twitter community.
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Watch these videos to learn what you need to know to get social on the lively and informative Cardiac MR Twitter community. Because #WhyCMR.
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Jan 1 to Jan 25, 2021
#WhyCMR Activity
by Purvi Parwani
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Each month our social media committee correspondents update us on the latest #WhyCMR activity stats, most popular tweets or threads. Join the conversation and use the #WhyCMR in your social media posts! |
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Review
Warren J. Manning
Published on 12. January
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Research
Alwin Zweerink, et al.
Published on: 11. January 2021
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Research
Dimitri Patriki, et al.
Published on: 07. January 2021
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Research
Roberto Lorbeer, et al.
Published on: 04. January 2021
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Research
Sylvia Krupickova, et al.
Published on: 04. January 2021
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Research
Lenhard Pennig, et al.
Published on: 17. December 2020
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Please use this link for a filtered PubMed list of all CMR-related manuscripts for January 2021 – more than 300 in total!
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Manish Motwani
Newsletter Editor
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