Purpose To assess the tissue iron concentration of the left ventricle (LV) using a multislice,
multiecho T2* MR technique and a segmental analysis. Materials and Methods T2* multiecho …

Obesity-associated inflammation causes insulin resistance. Obese adipose tissue displays
hypertrophied adipocytes and increased expression of the cannabinoid-1 receptor. Cobalt …

Purpose To describe and evaluate an automatic and unsupervised method for assessing the
quantity and distribution of abdominal adipose tissue by MRI. Material and Methods A total …

Background Oral deferiprone was suggested to be more effective than subcutaneous
desferrioxamine for removing heart iron. Oral once-daily chelator deferasirox has recently been …

Purpose To assess the transferability of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) multislice
multiecho T2* technique for global and segmental measurement of iron overload in …

In the clinical MRI practice, it is common to assess liver iron overload by T2* multi-echo
gradient-echo images. However, there is no full consensus about the best image analysis …

BACKGROUND: Several studies using echocardiography identified epicardial adipose
tissue (EPI) as an important cardiometabolic risk marker. However, validation compared with …

Background and Aims Peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor (PPAR)‐γ agonists decrease
hepatic/visceral fat (VF) and improve necroinflammation despite subcutaneous (SC) fat …

A segmental, multislice, multi‐echo T 2 * MRI approach could be useful in heart iron‐overloaded
patients to account for heterogeneous iron distribution, demonstrated by histological …

Mild-to-moderate hypertension is often associated with insulin resistance and visceral
adiposity. Whether these metabolic abnormalities have an independent impact on regional …