2025/01 - 2024 Highlights [Journal Club]-January JCMR Journal Club Webinar Part 1

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At the first JCMR Journal Club of 2025, Editor-in-Chief Tim Leiner hosted a discussion with Valentina Puntmann, Ruud van Heeswijk, and Eike Nagel about the most exciting cardiovascular MRI papers of 2024 and what they hope for in 2025. Puntmann highlighted studies on improved proximal aortic segmentation and follow-up growth assessment using semi-automated algorithms, 4D flow analysis of aortic wall shear stress in bicuspid aortic valve disease, and MRI findings in suspected post-COVID-vaccination myocarditis, noting persistent late gadolinium enhancement but limited outcome data. Van Heeswijk focused on emerging technical advances, especially quantitative susceptibility mapping for myocardial hemorrhage and hyperpolarized metabolic imaging. The panel also discussed practical adoption of 4D flow, with most centers still using it mainly in congenital heart disease. Overall, the session emphasized better image acquisition, advanced post-processing, and the need for more clinical outcome studies.

Keywords

cardiovascular MRI

aortic segmentation

4D flow analysis

myocarditis

quantitative susceptibility mapping

hyperpolarized metabolic imaging