Key result
Multimodality imaging improves sex-specific grading, staging, and risk stratification in valvular heart disease.
Multimodality imaging is important for addressing sex-specific differences in valvular heart disease to improve disease grading, staging of extra-valvular cardiac damage, and risk stratification.
Summary Sex differences in valvular heart disease (VHD) represent an emerging focus in cardiovascular imaging, with implications spanning aetiology, pathophysiology, chamber remodelling, and prognosis. This review aims to illustrate how multimodality imaging can be applied to address sex-specific differences in VHD, with the goal of improving disease grading, staging of extra-valvular cardiac damage, and risk stratification across the whole VHD spectrum.
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Springhetti et al. (2025) conducted a review in Valvular heart disease. Multimodality imaging was evaluated. Multimodality imaging can address sex-specific differences in valvular heart disease to improve disease grading, staging of extra-valvular cardiac damage, and risk stratification.
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