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Promoting Global Inclusiveness and Engagement |
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Dear Friends and Colleagues in SCMR,
I am both humbled and honored to be SCMR’s new Vice Secretary-Treasurer and follow in the footsteps of Michael Markl, PhD, FSCMR, and many other leaders that have served the Society during these almost 30 years of successful history. I would like to thank the Society for supporting the inclusiveness of candidates around the world and also express my heartfelt thanks for all your support and confidence in me.
To achieve its mission of improving cardiovascular health by advancing the field of CMR, SCMR needs to reach out to patients, physicians, and scientists in all corners of the world. I am excited to serve our Society more intensely and effectively, in a time when the Society expands its mission globally and envisions future meetings outside the United States and Europe. I look forward to working with you all as a team to help SCMR to expand its international footprint.
Please allow me to quote our dear immediate past president Subha Raman, MD, MSEE, FSCMR: "You are the Society, and the Society is here for you." Having that in mind, I would like to help SCMR to stimulate the engagement of its members in all scientific activities, meetings, webinars, committees, and on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee by revealing and publicizing easy ways of engaging in SCMR activities and running for specific roles with SCMR. This means inclusiveness all over the world.
SCMR is the most important Society in my career and also in my life, where I have made many life-long friends and partners. I will work to make SCMR an integral part of all our members' academic, professional, and social lives.
Please reach out to SCMR and get involved.
Carlos Rochitte, MD, PhD, FSCMR
Vice Secretary-Treasurer
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Join Us for an Overview of the Best of SCMR 2022!
Friday, 1 April 2022
2:00 - 3:00 PM CT
Moderated by: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD, FSCMR, Stanford University, USA
Panelists: Claudia Prieto, PhD, King's College, UK; João Cavalcante, MD, FSCMR, Allina Health, USA; Timothy C. Slesnick, MD, Emory University, USA; and Purvi Parwani, MD, Loma Linda University, USA
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This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the best content from the 25th SCMR Annual Scientific Sessions #SCMR22. This webinar is FREE to SCMR members and nonmembers.
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Sign up for the 2022 CMR Board Exam Review Course! |
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Join Us for the 2022 CMR Board Exam Review Course
9 - 10 April 2022
10:00 am - 7:40 PM CT
Will you be taking the board exam? Register for the 2022 CMR Board Exam Review Course which offers live and on-demand content followed by live Q&A with the speakers/moderators.
The CMR Certification Examination Preparatory Course organized by SCMR is intended to align to the objectives for a new physician certification in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) launched by the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement™ (APCA™).
The Certification Board of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CBCMR) examination assesses candidates on their knowledge, skills, and abilities in preparing patients for CMR studies, selecting appropriate protocols, conducting CMR studies in a spectrum of scenarios and interpreting the results, and performing post-processing tasks.
Registrants will receive:
- Access to the on-demand CMR Exam Review Course in their online learning portal
- Access to the streamed talks followed by live Q&A from the presenters & moderators
- Ability to submit questions to the speakers live during the Q&A sessions
Registration is $300 USD for SCMR members and $350 USD for nonmembers.
Online registration is available until 9 April 2022.
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Don't Miss Your Chance to Register for On-Demand Access to #SCMR22 and Earn CME!
Registration for accessing the session recordings from the SCMR 25th Annual Scientific Sessions is available until 15 April 2022. The content and CME is available until 4 May 2022 for registered attendees.
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Save the Date for SCMR 26th Annual Scientific Sessions
25 January - 28 January 2023
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA, USA
Hear from experts in the field, learn the latest in CMR, and network with colleagues around the world at this premier event for CMR professionals! Featuring scientific sessions and hands-on case sessions on various topics like coronary artery disease, cardiac masses, CMR in cardio-oncology, vascular imaging, and multi-modality imaging in valvular heart disease.
Registration and lodging Information coming soon!
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João Cavalcante, MD, FSCMR
Program Chair
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Jadranka Stojanovska,
MD, MSc, FSCMR
Program Vice Chair
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Tobias Schaeffter, PhD
Science Chair
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Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging—A Joint Summit of EACVI and SCMR
Thursday, 5 May - Friday, 6 May 2022 (2 Days)
London, UK
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Join us in person in London for a joint summit between SCMR and EACVI entitled Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging!
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in the near future by offering previously inconceivable new possibilities in the acquisition, workflow, and interpretation of images.
Optimize Your Clinical Practice
This summit will discuss an overview about the current state of the art, recent progress, opportunities, and future outlook of AI in CMR.
A Great Opportunity for Engineers and Clinicians
Recent developments will be illustrated by abstract sessions and industry showcases. This summit will also cover current and future challenges, issues, as well as legal and regulatory issues of AI in cardiovascular imaging.
Space is Limited. Register Today!
This will be the first in-person CMR Conference in two years and space is limited to 250 attendees. Register now to secure your spot!
Discounts for SCMR Members
All SCMR members save over 35% on registration fees.
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AI Revolution in CMR Hits the News! |
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Precision Measurement of Cardiac Structure and Function in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Using Machine Learning
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Rhodri Davies, MD, PhD
Barts Heart Centre
Many readers will remember Robert Balaban’s words during a plenary at SCMR 2017: "Stop Drawing Circles!" They were in reference to the practice of highly trained clinicians laboriously drawing contours to delineate the left ventricle. I had been involved in computer vision research and was amazed that the process had not been automated. Shortly after the conference, I started my CMR fellowship and amazement quickly turned into despair when I had to start drawing circles myself!
Fully automated tools have since been released, but their emphasis is almost exclusively on speed. It was the potential to accelerate clinical workflow that several UK national newspapers picked up on when publication of a recent paper (Davies et al., JCMR, 2022) coincided with the release of the UK National Health service’s (long) waiting list times.
Speed is important, but we were motivated to use machine learning for another goal: to reduce measurement error caused by human subjectivity and inconsistency. We are not as good as we think we are at making measurements from CMR, with experienced clinicians achieving a minimal detectable change of 8.7% when measuring LVEF (Bhuva et al., 2019) . Since a few percentage points can make a difference to a diagnosis or treatment plan, these measurement errors can propagate into clinical decision-making.
We showed that precision of clinical expert annotation can be bettered by a machine learning algorithm, as measured on multi-centre, multi-disease test-retest data (Davies et al., JCMR, 2022). We hope that not only will this save time and resources but also improve clinical care.
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2021 Seed Grant Award Updates |
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A Novel Re-Usable, CMR-Compatible ECGI Vest for Large-Scale Clinical Research Use: SMART-ECGI |
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Debbie Falconer, BA, MBBS
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Our team have designed the first high-throughput washable, CMR-compatible garment for recording high-density electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI): SMART-ECGI. ECGI non-invasively maps whole-heart epicardial potentials in vivo through 256 dry electrodes covering the torso. ECGI can detect subtle electrophysiological abnormalities that would be missed by a standard 12-lead ECG, signaling a patient is at risk of arrhythmias. Combining cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data with ECGI has the potential to help us better understand the arrhythmogenic significance of structural heart disease, allowing us to stratify which patients are most at risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.
Prototype testing demonstrated the garment is CMR-safe and reusable, retaining excellent signal quality for >150 washes. SMART-ECGI in now being used in several CMR deep-phenotyping studies taking place at University College London, investigating patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and in population studies of older age. Combining ECGI and CMR will give us unprecedented insight into how life course events and comorbidities affect heart muscle function, blood flow and electrical abnormalities.
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Congenital Heart Disease Corner |
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Updates on our Pediatric/Congenital Heart Disease Section
This past month, we had elections for three new members of the Steering Committee. Congratulations to Dr. Jon Soslow, Dr. Barbara Burkhardt and David Annese, who will serve three-year terms from 2022-2025. In addition, a huge welcome to our newly elected Chair, Dr. Francesca Raimondi!
The 2022 SCMR Scientific Sessions PCHD content was a huge success. Here is a summary of highlights from the congenital sessions from Dr. Tim Slesnick who, along with Drs. Sonya Babu-Narayan, Brian Fonseca and Christopher Francois, served on the Program Committee and organized fantastic PCHD topics!
This year we provided 9 hours of didactic sessions plus an additional 4 hours of original Abstracts, Cases, and special on-Demand only content from the 3D+ SIG. More than 50 Faculty participated and delivered state-of-the-art science and updates to our members. A few highlighted sessions were, “Surgical Planning: Focus on DORV” and “I want to go fast / I want to go far”, both of which featured a combination of outstanding lectures and lively discussion with the audience. All content is available on the SCMR website until 4 May 2022. We look forward to seeing everyone in person for the 2023 Sessions in San Diego.
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Kanwal Farooqi, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Columbia University, New York, United States
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Early Gadolinium Enhancement Imaging
Early gadolinium enhancement (EGE) imaging is a method used to detect the presence of thrombus within the chambers of the heart. Left ventricular (LV) thrombus is potentially a serious medical complication that requires prompt identification, as it puts the patient at risk of ischaemic stroke.
EGE images are acquired 3 minutes after the patient has received a single dose of gadolinium. Images are prescribed in the long axis (4C, 2C, 3C) and as a short axis stack. Thrombi are commonly seen in the apex of the heart, especially in a dysfunctional heart where there can be slow blood flow. Therefore, including the apex on all images is essential.
An inversion time (TI) of 500ms is utilised as this will null the signal from a thrombus. As the thrombus is an avascular entity, its nulled black appearance will be easily identified within the high signal, contrast filled chambers.
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Figure 1: Example of a laminar thrombus situated adjacent to the anterior wall (orange arrow). |
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The SCMR Introductory Course in CMR (2021 Update) |
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Participate in the 2021 revision of the SCMR Introductory course in CMR. This course is designed to cover theory, knowledge, and some of the skills required for core training in CMR. The course takes approximately 10 hours to complete and is split into 15 topics. There is a strong interactive component, with questions at the end of each topic, as well as lots of case reviews along the way.
The course is not designed to replicate the practical aspects of scan acquisition and live reporting that can only be gained from working in a CMR department. The course will, however, provide you with 10 hours of theoretical and case-based learning and contribute 30 online cases toward your level I, II, or III certificate.
If you are enrolled in the course via SCMR, a certificate will be provided at the end. Nonmembers will need to sign up as a guest to complete. Registration is free to SCMR members and $100 for nonmembers. To learn more about becoming an SCMR member, visit the SCMR membership page.
SCMR also provides a listing of other upcoming introductory courses and fellowship opportunities at scmr.org. Be sure to check out future training opportunities at https://scmr.org/page/IntroTraining. |
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2021 Stress Perfusion Webinar Series Now Available On Demand (with CME!) |
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The 2021 AHA/ACC Chest Pain Guidelines mark an important step toward the more appropriate use of cardiac MRI, especially for patients in the United States who are particularly disadvantaged compared to Europe and other parts of the world.
This four-part webinar series is now available on demand from SCMR.
Part 1: Stress Perfusion CMR in the 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines
Speakers: John P. Greenwood, MBChB, PhD, FSCMR; and Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH, FSCMR
Moderators: Subha V. Raman, MD, MSEE, FSCMR; Sven Plein, MD, PhD; and Purvi Parwani, MD
Part 2: Stress Perfusion CMR in Patients with Chest Pain: Evidence-Based Summary
Speakers: Andrew Arai, MD, MSCMR; and Michael Salerno, MD, PhD, MS, FSCMR
Moderators: Victor A. Ferrari, MD, MSCMR; Matthias Friedrich, MD, MSCMR; and Balaji Tamarappoo, MD, PhD
Part 3: How to Start a Stress CMR Service
Speakers: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FSCMR; and Christopher Dyke, MD
Moderators: Scott Yang, MD; Mark Westwood, MD, FSCMR; and Manish Motwani, MB ChB, PhD, FSCMR
Part 4: Stress CMR Perfusion Cases: Guideline Scenarios Read with the Experts
Speakers: Christopher Kramer, MD, MSCMR; Purvi Parwani, MD; Cheton Shenay, MD; and Bobby Heydari, MD
Moderators: Eike Nagel, MD, PhD, MSCMR; Faisal Nabi, MD; and Christopher Kramer, MD, MSCMR
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Chest Pain Guideline Translation |
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We are excited to announce that two of our Stress Perfusion webinars have been translated into Spanish! Thank you to the Asociación Nacional de Cardiólogos de México (ANCAM) for helping translate these informative webinars. |
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Help SCMR Translate Critical CMR Publications |
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In addition to these translated publication papers, the Translations Committee has also made contributions to the translation of several presentations from the SCMR "How I Do..." educational series. This series breaks down step-by-step how CMR experts perform a specific CMR protocol. Visit the "How I Do..." series webpage to learn more.
SCMR is looking for volunteers to translate publications. In order to engage CMR professionals around the world, the Society is working to ensure that the necessary education is available in languages other than English. If you are a fluent or near-fluent member capable of providing clinical-level translations, please submit the interest form. There is no deadline for applying. Applications will be reviewed year-round.
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Online Educational Opportunities |
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April - May
16 February - 31 May 2022
On-Demand
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Learn Cardiovascular (CV) management and leadership strategies and discover how to align strong leadership with effective business strategies to improve CV care and patient outcomes. Experience innovative approaches to elevate the patient and CV clinician experience.
Register today at the special ACC member rate and join this transformative educational experience designed for all practices—private, integrated, academic—and the entire CV team!
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May
24 - 26 MAY 2022
Online
The online course covers the basic principles of CMR, its clinical indications, and its role in a multi-modality imaging environment. Delegates will learn in lectures and interactive sessions; at the end of the course they will have a solid understanding of when to refer a patient for cardiovascular MRI and how to interpret CMR images in reporting. This established 3-day course has been running for 10 years at King's, with an exceptional faculty of internationally renowned experts in the field of cardiac MRI.
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22-03: UNGUARDED MITRAL ORIFICE WITH DORV AND NORMALLY RELATED GREAT ARTERIES: CMR DIAGNOSIS
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This is a case of a 4-month-old girl, product of full term pregnancy and birth weight of 2 kg who was postnatally admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for 25 days at a remote community hospital. She was subsequently discharged home in stable condition. At 3 months of age, she was referred to our center as a case of congenital heart disease.
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Figure 1. Chest x-ray on admission.
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Sylvia Chen, MBBS
Editor
Cases of SCMR
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Jason N. Johnson, MD, MHS
Deputy Editor
Cases of SCMR
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SCMR is looking for interesting CMR cases for publication on Cases of SCMR. We are particularly interested in cases where CMR was essential in diagnosis and management. Submission of multi-imaging modality cases are encouraged.
Submitted cases will be peer-reviewed by the web committee before acceptance and can be listed as a peer reviewed web publication on CVs. Cases published or under consideration for publication elsewhere or that have been previously presented at SCMR Scientific Sessions will not be accepted.
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What Caught Our Cardiac MR Eyes This Month?
by Manish Motwani, Newsletter Editor
Twitter-based #WhyCMR journal watch 📚⌚- join the online discussion!
2. AI vs humans for LVEF & RVEF. Not bad but more work to go, especially for RVEF? 🦾🤜
6. 4D flow CMR before & after TAVR – less turbulence & less wall shear stress 🌪☮
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1 March to
29 March 2022
#WhyCMR Activity
Each month our social media committee correspondents update us on the latest #WhyCMR activity stats and most popular tweets or threads. Join the conversation and use the #WhyCMR in your social media posts and follow @SCMRorg!
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Research
Davies, et al.
Published on 10 March 2022
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Review
Shetty, et al.
Published on 7 March 2022
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Review
Warren J. Manning
Published on 4 March 2022
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Research
Raman, et al.
Published on 1 March 2022
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Research
Tower-Rader, et al.
Published on 22 February 2022
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Research
Buddhe, et al.
Published on 3 February 2022
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Please use this link for a filtered PubMed list of all CMR-related manuscripts for March—more than 300 in total!
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SOCIETY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
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Manish Motwani
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