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Team: Agnes Mayr, Mathias Pamminger, Felix Troger, Christian Kremser, Benjamin Henninger, Matthias Schwab, Enrique Almar Munoz

The "Cardiovascular MRI” research group for many years works in close cooperation with the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III/Cardiology and Angiology (Prof. Dr. B. Metzler, Ass.-Prof. PD Dr. SJ. Reinstadler, PhD) with the main focus targeting the optimized stratification of patients prognosis after ST-elevation myocardial infarction based by cardiac MRI parameters. In addition, the development, randomized validation and AI-supported automation of an MRI-based TAVI planning alternative (transcatheter aortic valve intervention) represents a current research approach. Other cooperation projects include the shock wave therapy after myocardial infarction with the University Hospital for Cardiac Surgery Innsbruck (CAST-HF study , PD Dr. J. Holfeld).
Together with these local and international project partners, the cardiovascular MRI research group was able to publish more than 100 publications over the last years.

selected publications:

Troger F, Klug G, Poskaite P, Tiller C, Lechner I, Reindl M, Holzknecht M, Fink P, Brunnauer E, Gizewski E, Metzler B, Reinstadler S, Mayr A. Mitral Annular Disjunction in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients - a Retrospective Cardiac MRI Study. Clin Res Cardiol. 113(5):770-780 (2024)

Reindl M, Lechner I, Holzknecht M, Tiller C, Fink P, Oberhollenzer F, von der Emde S, Pamminger M, Troger F, Kremser C, Laßnig E, Danninger K, Binder RK, Ulmer H, Brenner C, Klug G, Bauer A, Metzler B, Mayr A*, Reinstadler SJ*. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Versus Computed Tomography to Guide Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR-CMR): A Randomized, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial. Circulation. 148:1220-1230 (2023).

Mayr A, Klug G, Reindl M, Lechner I, Tiller C, Holzknecht M, Pamminger M, Troger F, Schocke M, Bauer A, Reinstadler SJ, Metzler M. Evolution of myocardial tissue injury and persistence of iron and edema within the infarct core: a CMR study over a decade after ST-elevation myocardial infarction. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 15(6):1030-1042 (2022).

Pamminger M, Reindl M, Kranewitter C, Troger F, Tiller C, Holzknecht M, Lechner I, Poskaite P, Klug G, Kremser C, Reinstadler SJ, Metzler B, Mayr A. Prognostic value of pulmonary transit time by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Eur Radiol. 33(2):1219-1228 (2023).

Holzknecht M, Reindl M, Tiller C, Reinstadler SJ, Lechner I, Pamminger M, Schwaiger JP, Klug G, Bauer A, Metzler B, Mayr A. Global longitudinal strain improves risk assessment after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a comparative prognostic evaluation of left ventricular functional parameters. Clin Res Cardiol 110, 1599-1611 (2021).

Mayr A, Klug G, Reinstadler SJ, Feistritzer HJ, Reindl M, Kremser C, Kranewitter C, Bonaros N, Friedrich G, Feuchtner G, Metzler B (2018): Is MRI equivalent to CT in the guidance of TAVR? A pilot study. Eur Radiol 28, 4625-4634 (2018).