Udo Sechtem

Stress functional MRI: detection of ischemic heart disease and myocardial viability.

Iatrogenic aortic dissection.

Chronobiological patterns of acute aortic dissection.

Early results of coronary angioplasty despite more complex interventions (Registry of The German Community Hospitals 1993-2000).

Syncope in acute aortic dissection: diagnostic, prognostic, and clinical implications.

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Magnetic resonance assessment of cardiac function, infarct scar distribution, and ventricular remodeling in the setting of ischemic cardiomyopathy.

[Cardio-MR and cardio-CT: quo vadis?].

MR imaging of myocardial perfusion and viability.

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: third joint task force of European and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of eight societies and by invited experts).

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease and prevention in clinical practice.

Reduction (TELMAR) as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension--a prospective, randomised, double-blind comparison of telmisartan with metoprolol over a period of six months rationale and study design.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessment of human myocarditis: a comparison to histology and molecular pathology.

[Nuclear cardiology: will we need it in the future?].

[Applications in cardiovascular MRI and CT--clinical indications and training].

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of eight societies and by invited experts).

Gender-related differences in acute aortic dissection.

Comparison of aortic dissection in patients with and without Marfan's syndrome (results from the International Registry of Aortic Dissection).

Clinical indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR): Consensus Panel report.

Clinical indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR): Consensus Panel report.

Branch vessel complications are increased in aortic dissection patients with renal insufficiency.

Acute intramural hematoma of the aorta: a mystery in evolution.

Delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessment of non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies.

Left ventricular wall motion abnormalities as well as reduced wall thickness can cause false positive results of routine SPECT perfusion imaging for detection of myocardial infarction.

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force Of European and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of eight societies and by invited experts).

Acute aortic dissection presenting with congestive heart failure: results from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection.

The clinical role of 'non-invasive' coronary angiography by multidetector spiral computed tomography: yet to be defined.

The winter peak in the occurrence of acute aortic dissection is independent of climate.

Can delayed enhancement and T2-weighted imaging distinguish acute from chronic myocardial infarction?

New non-invasive approaches for the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy: magnetic resonance imaging.

Implications of periaortic hematoma in patients with acute aortic dissection (from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection).

A vector-based, 5-electrode, 12-lead monitoring ECG (EASI) is equivalent to conventional 12-lead ECG for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes.

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Giant right atrium in the setting of desmin-related restrictive cardiomyopathy.

Effects of time, dose, and inversion time for acute myocardial infarct size measurements based on magnetic resonance imaging-delayed contrast enhancement.

Guidelines on the management of stable angina pectoris: executive summary: The Task Force on the Management of Stable Angina Pectoris of the European Society of Cardiology.

Cardiac magnetic resonance in myocardial disease.

Long-term survival in patients presenting with type A acute aortic dissection: insights from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD).

Diabetes does not influence treatment decisions regarding revascularization in patients with stable coronary artery disease.

[Guidelines on the management of stable angina pectoris; the experts of the European Society of Cardiology on the management of stable angina pectoris].

Right ventricular involvement in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Presentation, patterns of myocardial damage, and clinical course of viral myocarditis.

Treatment decisions in stable coronary artery disease: insights from the Euro Heart Survey on Coronary Revascularization.

[Guidelines on the management of stable angina pectoris: executive summary].

Long-term survival in patients presenting with type B acute aortic dissection: insights from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection.

[Guidelines on the management of stable angina pectoris. Executive summary].

Simple risk models to predict surgical mortality in acute type A aortic dissection: the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection score.

Significance of late gadolinium enhancement in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR).

2007 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

2007 Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension: The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

[Practice guidelines 2007 for the treatment of arterial hypertension].

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: executive summary. Fourth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts).

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: full text. Fourth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts).

Non-invasive evaluation of coronary vasospasm using a combined hyperventilation and cold-pressure-test perfusion CMR protocol.

[ESH/ESC 2007 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension].

Universal definition of myocardial infarction.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in clinically suspected cardiac amyloidosis: noninvasive imaging compared to endomyocardial biopsy.

[Guidelines in cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy].

Caucasian patients suffering from coronary vasospastic angina have an intact peripheral endothelium-dependent vasoreactivity.

A geographical mystery: do cardiotropic viruses respect national borders?

Coronary artery spasm as a frequent cause of acute coronary syndrome: The CASPAR (Coronary Artery Spasm in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome) Study.

[Guidelines for cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy].

Angioplasty within 24 h after thrombolysis in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: current use, predictors and outcome. Results of the MITRA plus registry.

Cardiac involvement in patients with Becker muscular dystrophy: new diagnostic and pathophysiological insights by a CMR approach.

Geographic differences in clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes in type A acute aortic dissection (from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection).

Value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance stress perfusion testing for the detection of coronary artery disease in women.

Noninvasive differentiation between active and healed myocarditis by cardiac magnetic resonance: are we there yet?

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in myocarditis: A JACC White Paper.

EuroCMR (European Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance) registry: results of the German pilot phase.

Diagnostic synergy of non-invasive cardiovascular magnetic resonance and invasive endomyocardial biopsy in troponin-positive patients without coronary artery disease.

[Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation].

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals similar damage to the heart of patients with Becker and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy but no cardiac symptoms.

Current variables, definitions and endpoints of the European cardiovascular magnetic resonance registry.

Diagnostic value of perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with angina pectoris but normal coronary angiograms assessed by intracoronary acetylcholine testing.

Imaging in inflammatory heart disease: from the past to current clinical practice.

[Acute coronary syndrome: prehospital emergency management, therapy at the practice physician].

Guidelines for pre-operative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery: the Task Force for Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Cardiac Management in Non-cardiac Surgery of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and endorsed by the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA).

Letter by Ong et al regarding article, "coronary artery spasm: a 2009 update".

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiomyopathy in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy carrier and her diseased son: similar pattern revealed by cardiovascular MRI.

[Cardiac computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with coronary artery disease].

Myocardial scar visualized by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging predicts major adverse events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Comparative evaluation of left and right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy: differences in complication rate and diagnostic performance.

Telemedical Interventional Monitoring in Heart Failure (TIM-HF), a randomized, controlled intervention trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure: study design.

Exercise-induced spastic coronary artery occlusion at the site of a moderate stenosis: neither Prinzmetal's angina nor cardiac syndrome X but "Prinzmetal X".

3-year follow-up of patients with coronary artery spasm as cause of acute coronary syndrome: the CASPAR (coronary artery spasm in patients with acute coronary syndrome) study follow-up.

The proteoglycan-dystrophin complex in genetic cardiomyopathies--lessons from three siblings with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy-2I (LGMD-2I).

Coronary vasospasm: is it a myth?

Impact of remote telemedical management on mortality and hospitalizations in ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure: the telemedical interventional monitoring in heart failure study.

Coronary artery spasm as a cause for myocardial infarction in patients with systemic inflammatory disease.

Usefulness of pericardial effusion as new diagnostic criterion for noninvasive detection of myocarditis.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of inflamed myocardium using iron oxide nanoparticles in patients with acute myocardial infarction - preliminary results.

Prevalence of the type 1 Brugada electrocardiogram in Caucasian patients with suspected coronary spasm.

ECG findings in comparison to cardiovascular MR imaging in viral myocarditis.

Prognostic value of routine cardiac magnetic resonance assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and myocardial damage: an international, multicenter study.

Telemedicine in heart failure: pre-specified and exploratory subgroup analyses from the TIM-HF trial.

Acute adverse reactions to gadolinium-based contrast agents in CMR: multicenter experience with 17,767 patients from the EuroCMR Registry.

Non-invasive imaging in acute chest pain syndromes.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) reveals characteristic pattern of myocardial damage in patients with mitochondrial myopathy.

Gender differences in the manifestation of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy.

Cardiac involvement in muscular dystrophy: advances in diagnosis and therapy.

High prevalence of a pathological response to acetylcholine testing in patients with stable angina pectoris and unobstructed coronary arteries. The ACOVA Study (Abnormal COronary VAsomotion in patients with stable angina and unobstructed coronary arteries).

Update on myocarditis.

Long-term follow-up of biopsy-proven viral myocarditis: predictors of mortality and incomplete recovery.

Increased coronary vasoconstrictor response to acetylcholine in women with chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms (cardiac syndrome X).

Primary cardiac lymphoma causing coronary vasospasm.

Republished Education in Heart: Cardiac involvement in muscular dystrophy: advances in diagnosis and therapy.

Case report: acute coronary artery spasm in a patient in the setting of non-cardiac surgery.

Long-term impact of undetected Kawasaki syndrome on coronary morphology and physiology.

[Update coronary artery disease: important progresses in acute and chronic therapy].

Angina pectoris in patients with normal coronary angiograms: current pathophysiological concepts and therapeutic options.

Comparison of exercise electrocardiography and stress perfusion CMR for the detection of coronary artery disease in women.

Incremental value of late gadolinium enhancement for management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

Third universal definition of myocardial infarction.

First multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance study using ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in a patient with acute myocardial infarction: new vistas for the clinical application of ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide.

Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in the diagnosis of acute and chronic myocarditis.

Imaging of myocardial infarction using ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: a human study using a multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging approach.

Transient myocardial ischemia during acetylcholine-induced coronary microvascular dysfunction documented by myocardial contrast echocardiography.

Patterns of coronary vasomotor responses to intracoronary acetylcholine provocation.

CMR imaging predicts death and other adverse events in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis.

Gender-related differences in takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Diagnostic approach and differential diagnosis in patients with hypertrophied left ventricles.

Magnetic resonance of the heart in a muscular dystrophy patient with an MR conditional ICD: assessment of safety, diagnostic value and technical limitations.

Tele-accelerometry as a novel technique for assessing functional status in patients with heart failure: feasibility, reliability and patient safety.

Coronary vasomotor abnormalities in patients with stable angina after successful stent implantation but without in-stent restenosis.

2013 ESC guidelines on the management of stable coronary artery disease: the Task Force on the management of stable coronary artery disease of the European Society of Cardiology.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: an integrated multi-imaging approach.

Epicardial coronary artery spasm as cause of capecitabine-induced tako tsubo cardiomyopathy.

The year in cardiology 2013: imaging in ischaemic heart disease.

T1 mapping as new diagnostic technique in a case of acute onset of biopsy-proven viral myocarditis.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance risk stratification in patients with clinically suspected myocarditis.

Extra cardiac findings in cardiovascular MR: why cardiologists and radiologists should read together.

Clinical usefulness, angiographic characteristics, and safety evaluation of intracoronary acetylcholine provocation testing among 921 consecutive white patients with unobstructed coronary arteries.

Positive effect of intravenous iron-oxide administration on left ventricular remodelling in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction - a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) study.

Improving diagnosis and treatment of women with angina pectoris and microvascular disease: the iPOWER study design and rationale.

Contained aortic annulus rupture with persisting false aneurysm after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Myocardial fibrosis imaging based on T1-mapping and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) measurement in muscular dystrophy patients: diagnostic value compared with conventional late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging.

Ischaemia testing in patients with stable angina: which test for whom?

Coronary microvascular dysfunction assessed by intracoronary acetylcholine provocation testing is a frequent cause of ischemia and angina in patients with exercise-induced electrocardiographic changes and unobstructed coronary arteries.

The role of imaging in aortic dissection and related syndromes.

Cause of cardiac disease in a female carrier of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: myocarditis versus genetic cardiomyopathy without skeletal myopathy?

[Medical therapy of coronary artery disease].

Complications in the clinical course of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy.

2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases: Document covering acute and chronic aortic diseases of the thoracic and abdominal aorta of the adult. The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) by centres with and without an on-site cardiac surgery programme: preliminary experience from the German TAVI registry.

Diagnostic value of CMR in young patients with clinically suspected acute myocarditis is determined by cardiac enzymes.

Left ventricular systolic function and the pattern of late-gadolinium-enhancement independently and additively predict adverse cardiac events in muscular dystrophy patients.

Multimodality imaging: bird's eye view from The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2014 Barcelona, August 30-September 3, 2014.

Acetylcholine-induced coronary spasm in patients with unobstructed coronary arteries is associated with elevated concentrations of soluble CD40 ligand and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein.

Is FAME 2 a breakthrough for PCI in stable coronary disease?

Acute type B aortic dissection complicated by visceral ischemia.

[2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases].

Response to letters regarding article, "Clinical usefulness, angiographic characteristics, and safety evaluation of intracoronary acetylcholine provocation testing among 921 consecutive white patients with unobstructed coronary arteries".

Transradial left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy: assessment of safety and efficacy.

Recurrent Angina Due to Epicardial Coronary Artery Spasm After Successful Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Implantation.

Characteristic cardiac phenotypes are detected by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with different clinical phenotypes and genotypes of mitochondrial myopathy.

Structural and Functional Coronary Artery Abnormalities in Patients With Vasospastic Angina Pectoris.

Cardiac involvement in female Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy carriers in comparison to their first-degree male relatives: a comparative cardiovascular magnetic resonance study.

Predictors of outcome in patients with parvovirus B19 positive endomyocardial biopsy.

The diagnostic value of iron oxide nanoparticles for imaging of myocardial inflammation--quo vadis?

2015 Update on Acute Adverse Reactions to Gadolinium based Contrast Agents in Cardiovascular MR. Large Multi-National and Multi-Ethnical Population Experience With 37788 Patients From the EuroCMR Registry.

International standardization of diagnostic criteria for vasospastic angina.

2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: Task Force for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Patients Presenting without Persistent ST-Segment Elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Impact of long-term steroid therapy on epicardial and pericardial fat deposition: a cardiac MRI study.

Impact of arrhythmia on diagnostic performance of adenosine stress CMR in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease.

Current state of knowledge on Takotsubo syndrome: a Position Statement from the Taskforce on Takotsubo Syndrome of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

Multimodality imaging: Bird's eye view from The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2015 London, August 29-September 2, 2015.

[Stable coronary heart disease - when is bypass surgery appropriate?].

The Who, What, Why, When, How and Where of Vasospastic Angina.

Severe Prinzmetal-Type Coronary Artery Spasm Causing Recurrent ST-Segment Elevation and Reversible Obstruction of a Bioresorbable Scaffold.

[Imaging procedures for myocarditis and cardiomyopathy].

Controversies in the treatment of patients with STEMI and multivessel disease: is it time for PCI of all lesions?

[Imaging procedures for myocarditis and cardiomyopathy].

Assessing suspected angina: requiem for coronary computed tomography angiography or exercise electrocardiogram?

Testing in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease　- The Debate Continues.

Interleukin-6 Kinetics can be Useful for Early Treatment Monitoring of Severe Bacterial Sepsis and Septic Shock.

ESC working group position paper on myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries.

Identification of cardiomyopathy associated circulating miRNA biomarkers in patients with muscular dystrophy using a complementary cardiovascular magnetic resonance and plasma profiling approach.

Treatment of Angina Pectoris Associated with Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction.

[Good results after transcatheter aortic-valve replacement in patients with intermediate risk].

[Recommendations of the ESC guidelines regarding cardiovascular imaging].

Remote magnetic targeting of iron oxide nanoparticles for cardiovascular diagnosis and therapeutic drug delivery: where are we now?

Recurrent Aortic Dissection: Observations From the International Registry of Aortic Dissection.

Chronobiology of Acute Aortic Dissection in the Marfan Syndrome (from the National Registry of Genetically Triggered Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Cardiovascular Conditions and the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection).

Identification of Cardiomyopathy-Associated Circulating miRNA Biomarkers in Muscular Dystrophy Female Carriers Using a Complementary Cardiac Imaging and Plasma Profiling Approach.

Non-invasive evaluation of the relationship between electrical and structural cardiac abnormalities in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Vasodilator Stress CMR: Method of Choice in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Suspected Coronary Stenosis?