This book offers a practical guidance to healthcare professionals interested in learning how to make adequate clinically-oriented use of cardiovascular MRI. Thanks to its case-based approach, it provides a detailed guide to MRI applications in the most common clinical cardiovascular scenarios. Chapters describe a number of real clinical cases, including concise clinical data, clear descriptions of the most relevant information obtained from MRI and of their meaning in terms of patient management. Emphasis is placed on traditional as well as newer MRI techniques, always keeping a practical format, focused on the hands-on knowledge required for an accurate image interpretation. In the online version, the text of each case is supplemented with additional images and videos, certainly making this book a useful resource for understanding how MRI principles apply to real clinical cardiovascular situations.
Andrea Barison currently works as a cardiologist at the Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio in Pisa (Italy) and affiliate researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy). He completed his residency training in Cardiology at the University of Pisa in 2009 and obtained a PhD Certification in Clinical and Translational Medicine (Innovative Strategies in Biomedical Research) at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 2013, after which he completed a 6-month fellowship in cardiac MRI at the Heart Hospital Imaging Center, London in 2012. He has been fully certified in cardiac MRI since 2014; he is member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He was Coordinator of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of the Italian Society of Cardiology (years 2019-2022). His expertise and research interests include heart failure, cardiomyopathies, cardiovascular magnetic resonance and multi-modality imaging. He authored more than 150 indexed articles on international journals, as well as several textbook chapters on cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Santo Dellegrottaglie is the Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Unit at Ospedale Accreditato Villa dei Fiori Acerra, Naples, Italy and Adjunct Faculty Member at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. He completed his residency training in Cardiology and obtained a PhD Certification in Clinical Pathophysiology and Experimental Medicine at the Federico II University of Naples, Italy. Dr. Dellegrottaglie completed a 2-year post-doctoral clinical and research fellowship in cardiac MRI and CT at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA and was medical staff member of the Cardiac MRI Program at the Niguarda-Ca’ Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy. He is Coordinator of the Working Group on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance of the Italian Society of Cardiology (years 2023-2025). His expertise and research interests include clinical applications of non-invasive imaging (particularly MRI) to cardiovascular diseases. He is the author of about 150 indexed articles on international journals and is an Editorial Board member of Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC).
Gianluca Pontone graduated with honors in medicine in 1997, and obtained a post-graduate degree in cardiology and radiology, and a PhD in Clinical Methodology at University of Milan, Italy. He is currently the Director of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging Department of Centro Cardiologico Monzino, a fully dedicated research hospital to cardiovascular disease and Professor of Cardiology at University of Milan. He is the author of about 500 indexed articles on international journals, 7 scientific books, and several lectures at national and international meetings in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He is currently Vice president of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and chairman of cardiac imaging cluster of Italian society of cardiology (years 2023-2025).
Ciro Indolfi is a full professor of Cardiology, Director of the Cardiology Division of the Magna Grecia University of Catanzaro, and Director of the Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases of the same University. From 1986 to 1987 he was an assistant professor at the Division of Cardiology University of California, USA, directed by Dr. John Ross Jr. and then became assistant professor at Federico II University (Naples). He was President of the Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology (GISE) and President of the Italian Society of Cardiology (SIC) (years 2019-2022) and is presently President of the Italian Federation of Cardiology (IFC). He dedicated his academic life to organizing national scientific societies and educating young cardiologists in the School of GISE, in Masters for interventionalists, and in the Board of Cardiology. He was the Editor of the Italian edition of Cath Sap of the American College of Cardiology. He was a member of the Board of Minimal Data Setting of the European Cardiology Society (ESC). He was nominated for FESC and FACC. He contributed to the writing of the ESC Guidelines on percutaneous coronary revascularization and the ESC Guidelines on valvular heart disease. He was the Editor-in-chief and the founder of Emodinamica, the official Journal of GISE. In 2006 was honorary awarded by the President of the Italian Republic with the title of Officer of the Italian Republic; he is a consultant to the Ministry of Health for the evaluation of medical devices. The research of Prof. Indolfi is attested by 420 manuscripts published in prestigious international journals with an H index of 60 with more than 25.000 citations, by seminars and presentations by invitation at national and international conferences.
