Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging The Prognostic Implications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Noninvasive imaging modalities are changing the manage-ment of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has matured as a clinical tool, having passed through validation, standardization, and clinical roll-out phas-es.1–5 CMR now aids the prediction of clinical outcomes with a growing prognostic evidence base, systematically reviewed here with a summary of 32 CMR outcome studies with 8855 patients (range, n25 to 1299). Ongoing trials on the clinicaltrials.gov website are also highlighted. Methods The methodologies of systematic review were used with a search of electronic databases (PubMed, Medline) for studies published fro