Reiter, Ursula http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4374-2528
Kovacs, Gabor
Reiter, Clemens
Kräuter, Corina
Nizhnikava, Volha
Fuchsjäger, Michael
Olschewski, Horst
Reiter, Gert
Funding for this research was provided by:
European School of Radiology (ESOR One-year fellowship 2019)
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (17934)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2020
Revised: 26 July 2020
Accepted: 11 September 2020
First Online: 24 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Ursula Reiter.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Gert Reiter is an employee of Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics GmbH, Austria. The study was performed under a Master Research Agreement between the Medical University of Graz, Graz University of Technology, and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics GmbH.The other authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors (Gert Reiter) has significant statistical expertise. No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.Ethical committee: Medical University of Graz, Austria.ExternalRef removed: NCT00575692 and NCT01725763
: Study patients were participants in two prospective studies enrolling consecutive patients with PH or with a risk of having PH and referring them for comprehensive cardiac MR imaging at 1.5 T and 3 T after RHC. Multiple studies have been published from these cohorts (Ref. CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed–CitationRef removed). This is the first study including 4D flow data from 3 T (NCT01725763), as well as follow-up 4D flow data at 1.5 T (NCT00575692).
: • retrospective analysis of two prospective studies• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution