SCMR Membership Renewal | Our Global Direction
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As the world’s economy and environment is evolving, SCMR has shaped a new membership scheme to be closer to its members needs by creating new opportunities to expand our community to countries with developing economy, and expand our outreach and educational mission.
The SCMR Membership renewal will begin on September 1.
To serve all our members globally, SCMR will now base membership dues on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a member’s home country, using the official World Bank Categories. Members can sign up as a Regular, Technologist/Allied Health or Trainee member, and the dues will be based on either High Income, Upper Middle, Lower Middle or Low Income countries of residence. You can view Membership Tiers and pricing here.
In response to the need to expand our educational offering, SCMR introduced a 14-part virtual CMR Webinar Series during April and May. These programs had nearly 5,000 attendees with 39% from North America, 23% from Europe, 20% from Asia, 16% from Latin/South America and 3% combined from Africa, Australia and New Zealand. This series was followed by the introduction of our first virtual Foundations of CMR Level I Workshop, equally successful with representation from 29 countries.
More exciting global initiatives are being planned; thus we encourage you to renew your membership on September 1 in order to continue to take advantage of your SCMR benefits and opportunities.
Sincerely,
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James Carr
President, SCMR
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SCMR Registry - Data Access Applications
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If you are interested in gaining access to the SCMR Registry database for your research project, please review the policy to learn how the process works.
To get started, submit a search request form here.
For more information regarding this process or participating in the SCMR Registry, visit the SCMR Registry webpage.
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Three board positions to be filled for 2021 are: one (1) U.S. non-physician scientist, two (2) U.S. cardiologists, who will each serve three-year terms.
We will also be electing one (1) Early Career Member to the Board of Trustees (non-voting) to serve a one-year term. The selected candidate will also serve as the Chair of the SCMR Early Career Section. Applicants for this position should be either in training or less than 4 years post-training as of February 2021. There are no specialty or regional criteria.
Former Board members are eligible for nomination at least two years after leaving office. You will find a list of all past and present Board members on the SCMR website.
Nominations must have the nominee’s agreement to run for the position.
Nominations must include:
- Signatures (emails are sufficient) of 10 supporting SCMR members in good standing.
- A 250-word biography of the candidate.
Please submit your suggestions for nominees or self-nomination to hq@scmr.org by Friday, September 18, 2020.
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Lingering CMR Abnormalities in COVID-19 Recovered Patients
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This month, two studies in patients recently recovered from COVID-19 have signaled a potentially higher burden of cardiac involvement than initially suspected and for an extended period from the acute illness. Huang et al studied 26 patients reporting cardiac symptoms following COVID-19 illness requiring hospitalization – they reported CMR abnormalities in 58%. Puntmann et al studied 100 patients that had recovered from COVD-19 illness but only a third had required hospitalization – they reported CMR abnormalities in 78%.
The results of both studies were striking – particularly data highlighting cardiac involvement in younger non-hospitalized patients as far out as 2 months after acute illness. Of note, in both papers, the headline figures for ‘CMR abnormalities’ (58% and 78%) included even subtle statistical differences compared to control groups across a range of CMR metrics (including LVEF, T1 mapping and T2 mapping) rather than all abnormal cases indicating clear-cut clinically significant myocarditis or definite late gadolinium enhancement abnormalities.
The results and methods of both studies are being discussed among the CMR community. In parallel, as reported in mainstream media, various sporting bodies and teams are beginning to consider the potential impact. Current guidelines in the United States recommend that athletes with probable or definite recent myocarditis (from any etiology) should not participate in competitive sports while active inflammation is present regardless of LVEF. European guidelines give similar recommendations on prohibiting competitive activity for athletes; however, they mandate a 6-month restriction before the disease process should be evaluated for resolution.
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Proposed 2021 Medicare Payment Rules Hold Mixed Results for CMR Reimbursement
by Carrie Kovar, Government Relations Consultant to SCMR
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued proposed rules for the 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS).
The OPPS governs technical component (TC) reimbursement (non-physician costs) for services provided in the outpatient setting. The PFS provides reimbursement for the professional component (PC) and some TC payments. Note that mandated cuts in spending are required under the PFS due to federal budget law.
2021 Proposed OPPS and PFS Reimbursement Amounts
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Congratulations to JCMR on New 2019 Impact Factor
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Congratulations to Warren J. Manning (editor-in-chief) and the entire JCMR editorial team. The 2019 impact factor (released at the end of June 2020) for JCMR, the official journal of SCMR, has increased from 5.1 to 5.361. The full metrics are detailed below and available on the journal’s website. Alongside this, we are grateful to our members for their high-quality submissions and their continued contribution to the peer-review process – all of which makes JCMR a success. A peer-reviewed journal would not survive without the generous time and insightful comments of the reviewers, whose efforts often go unrecognized - for these reasons, the editorial team publicly credits ‘Gold Star Reviewers.’ SCMR members receive the benefit of reduced article-processing charges in JCMR.
Impact Factor 2019: 5.361
Ranking in Category “Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging”: 13 out of 133 (Q1)
Ranking in Category “Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems”: 23/138 (Q1)
Number of cites: 1,024
Number of source items: 191
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Summit on Value-Based Cardiovascular Care at Indiana University
by Subha Raman
How can CMR deliver high value evaluation of coronary and ischemic heart disease for patients, providers, and payors? This question was recently addressed at a Summit on Value-Based Cardiovascular Care at Indiana University. This working summit whose proceedings are forthcoming in coordination with SCMR’s advocacy efforts included stakeholders across a statewide U.S. health system with noninvasive and interventional cardiologists, radiologists, primary care physicians, and administrators, as well as thought leaders in value-based cardiovascular care and CMR experts delivering high quality, cost-effective care in their communities. Issues addressed included how to compensate team-based coronary and ischemic heart disease evaluation across disciplines, facilitate patient access across facilities and regions, and find resonance with payors. SCMR looks forward to your engagement to implement ideas and solutions to help advance the delivery of high-value CMR-based evaluation of CAD/IHD.
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COVID-19 Survey from
SCMR & EACVI
Back in May, the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) launched an online survey to capture use of CMR is suspected COVID-19 cases around the globe.
We are making a push over the next month to record as much activity as possible before analysis begins- please contribute!
Each submission (one per scan) takes only five minutes and is entirely anonymous.
** Confirmed or high-probability COVID-19 cases can be included (regardless of test result)
** Both acute or recovery phase scans are eligible.
** You can also complete a survey for patients scanned in the past.
** Can easily be completed on your smartphone- just bookmark the page.
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2019 Clinical Science Seed Grant Recipient
by Upasana Tayal
I was very fortunate to be awarded the SCMR Clinical Science Seed Grant in 2018 for my project Novel approaches to cardiovascular magnetic resonance data science in dilated cardiomyopathy. The award is aimed at early career investigators to develop multi site efforts to increase the clinical effectiveness of CMR.
I initiated a collaboration with Dr Rahul Deo in the US to explore novel approaches to CMR data science. Dr Deo is chief data science officer at One Brave Idea and Lead Investigator in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA.
Together, we wanted to develop novel machine learning approaches to the analysis of
CMR data in patients with DCM. Specifically, we wanted to use data science to maximise the analysis of CMR data and to improve how we place the data gathered from CMR in the context of clinical, genetic and biomarker data in patients with DCM. This would serve to improve the clinical effectiveness of CMR, in line with the aim of the Seed Grant.
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Montefiore Advanced Cardiac Imaging Lectures
by Leandro Slipczuk
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COVID-19 pandemia has significantly changed our personal and professional life. New York City represented one of the epicenters during the first wave with a substantial impact in our patients and cardiology practice. Physician redeployment, decrease in volume of cardiac cases, hospital economical burden and interruption of in-person lectures threatened our educational programs like never before. At Montefiore, together with Drs. Mario Garcia and Linda Haramati, we saw the opportunity of virtual lectures to maintain our commitment to education and increase the presence of world leaders in our meetings. We created a series of free virtual educational lectures on cardiac CT and CMR. Our goal is to allow our and other programs to preserve their education during these hard times and provide a skillset to start or improve CT and CMR programs all over the world. Supporting the cause, we immediately received an outstanding response from international leaders in the imaging community.
Lectures are every first and third Friday and last 40 minutes with an additional 20 minutes for questions. Some of our speakers include Stephan Achenbach, Daniel Berman, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Philipp Blanke, Matthew Budoff, Joao Cavalcante, Marcelo Di Carli, Marc Dweck, Marianna Fontana, Ruchira Garg, Hasan Jilaihawi, Jonathon Leipsic, Juan Lopez-Mattei, James Min, James Moon, Manish Motwani, Saman Nazarian, Philippe Pibarot, Gianluca Pontone, Armin Zadeh and others.
Anyone interested should email maudinot@montefiore.org to be added to the mailing list. In addition, all lectures will be on YouTube at Monte Heart Lectures.
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The First CMR Facility in Bangladesh
The first-ever CMR centre in Bangladesh was recently inaugurated at the end of 2019. Located in the Popular Diagnostic Centre at Dhanmondi, Dhaka, the service is led by SCMR Member, Dr. Din-E-Mujahid Mohammed Faruque Osmany.
Dr Osmany has trained extensively in CMR, including under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Manka FSCMR, at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
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The CMR service is now underway and already several challenging cases have been scanned across the full spectrum of cardiomyopathies, perfusion, viability assessment and congenital heart disease. This service provides a much-needed first-step for CMR in Bangladesh, but the challenges remain high. With a population of over 160 million, a substantial network of several CMR centres is clearly required throughout the country. Increased awareness of the value of CMR, infrastructure, technical expertise development and the developing national economy are the challenges to overcome in the upcoming years to ensure the success of this modality in Bangladesh.
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Submission Deadline is September 22, 2020
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Online Educational Opportunities
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This event was presented LIVE from June 25-27, 2020 and can now be accessed ON-DEMAND for a limited time.
Register for the CMR Level I SCMR Workshop, as experts guide the participants through the fundamentals of CMR, reflecting on the added value of using CMR in clinical practice. This virtual experience emphasizes the clinical applications of CMR, with review of the appropriate use criteria and patients who might benefit most from the unique technology. Clinical cases are used liberally throughout the course to emphasize key concepts.
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Wednesday, September 30 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
This webinar will describe the acquisition strategies for T1 mapping and the processing to generate ECV maps. In particular, the MOLLI and SASHA families will be discussed and compared. Furthermore, the webinar will highlight how the choice of acquisition parameters can influence the accuracy and precision of the measurements, and put it into the context of the clinical interpretation.
Presenter: Andreas Sigfridsson , PhD, MR Physicist at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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CMR Journal Club
with host Matthias G. Friedrich
Wednesday, Sept. 2 @ 11:00 am ET
Papers to be discussed:
Fischer et. al
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Knobelsdorff et. al
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JCMR Journal Club
Wednesday, Sept. 16 @ 11:00 am ET
Paper to be discussed:
Sanz-De La Garza et. al
Journal Club Editor: Matthias Stuber
Presenting Author: Dr. Domenech-Ximenos
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Number 20-06: Tricuspid Valve Papillary Fibroelastoma
A 59-year-old man, admitted with a history of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction and treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), underwent echocardiogram and found to have a mass attached to the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve suggestive of a papillary fibroelastoma. Cardiovascular MRI was requested to exlude other differential diagnosis such as thrombus and vegetation.
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SCMR COVID-19 Case Collection
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Number COVID 20-05: CMR Findings in a Young Patient with Frequent PVCs in Setting of Prior COVID-19 Infection
A 29-year-old woman was admitted for palpitations and fatigue. One month prior to admission she had an upper respiratory infection characterized by cough, fever, and muscular pain. At that time she did not seek medical attention and only took pain relievers. One week after the initial onset of symptoms she developed mild diffuse chest pain and palpitations that persisted for two weeks. The 12 lead electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm without any ST and T wave abnormalities and the presence of frequent monofocal premature ventricular contractions (PVCs)
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July 23 to August 21
#WhyCMR Activity
by Purvi Parwani
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Each month our social media committee correspondents update us on the latest #WhyCMR activity stats, most popular tweets or threads. Join the conversation and use the #WhyCMR in your social media posts!
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Across
1 inflammatory disease de jour
6 too much CMR
8 area to scrutinize (abbrev)
10 moving chemicals
11 parametric relaxing navigation tool
(1,3,3)
14 strength of Musk
17 The Infiltrator
19 beat or sequence?
20 2D or 4D... just go with it
21 middle of scanner ... yawn
22 movie
23 LOL...Too many ZOOM sounds?
(acronym)
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Down
2 fibrosis
3 body or surface
4 speed up (in parallel) ...often common
5 but the coronaries were normal!
7 plane
9 stressor
10 k-
12 The Enhancer
13 incline or cardiac ultrasound?
14 full thickness
15 recent inducible trial
16 bring on the darkness (as the right
time)
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Research
Esther Puyol-Antón, et al.
Published: 20. August 2020
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Research
Malte Maria Sieren, et al.
Published: 10. August 2020
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Review
Bradley D. Allen, et al.
Published: 10. August 2020
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Research
Jacek Kwiecinski, et al.
Published: 06. August 2020
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Technical Note
Jennifer A. Steeden, et al.
Published: 03 August 2020
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Research
Dimitrios Maragiannis, et al.
Published: 30 July 2020
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Please use this link for a filtered PubMed list of all CMR-related manuscripts for August 2020 – more than 200 in total!
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Manish Motwani
Newsletter Editor
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