Sven Plein, MD, PhD

Professor of Cardiology
Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

I am Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Leeds and a Consultant Cardiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. I lead a large multidisciplinary research group that cuts across basic science, clinical science and clinical trials. We have access to state of the art translational imaging facilities for basic cardiovascular research and clinical studies. Methods we actively develop include:

• Quantitative myocardial perfusion
• 4D flow
• Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging
• MR Spectroscopy
• Parametric mapping

Our main research areas include:

• Ischaemic heart disease (acute and chronic)
• Heart failure
• Cardio-metabolic disease
• Cardio-rheumatology
• Heart valve disease
• Congenital heart disease

Presentation(s):

• Long-Term Prognostic Value and Warranty Period for Stress CMR in Patients with Stable Chest Pain: Insights from CE-MARC

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  8:30 AM - 8:40 AM  

• Innovations Track Session 2: Innovations in Patient Centric CMR

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  

• Tissue is the Issue: Why CMR is Indispensable in Cardio-Rheumatology

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  2:50 PM - 3:00 PM  

• Heart Failure with Improved Ejection Fraction: CMR Comparisons with Prognostic Implications

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  3:30 PM - 3:40 PM  

• Cardiac re-modelling in athletic and normal populations as predictors of future AF; a pooled analysis of LOOP and VENTOUX

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  3:59 PM - 4:06 PM  

• Longitudinal study of subclinical cardiovascular abnormalities in a very early rheumatoid arthritis cohort: 11-year follow-up from the CADERA trial

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  4:06 PM - 4:13 PM  

• Sex and age specific normal values for cardiac diffusion tensor imaging metrics

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  3:45 PM - 3:52 PM  

• Incremental Prognostic Impact of Combining Quantitative Stress Perfusion CMR and T1 Mapping in Patients with Heart Failure

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  3:59 PM - 4:06 PM  

• Combining fetal CMR derived hemodynamic and anatomical risk stratification tools significantly improves prenatal prediction of coarctation of the aorta

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  5:10 PM - 5:20 PM  

• Epicardial adiposity is associated with impaired cardiac energetics in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  5:00 PM - 5:10 PM  

• Impact of Rate-Pressure Product Correction of Myocardial Blood Flow on the Prognostic Relevance in Patients with Heart Failure

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  5:10 PM - 5:20 PM  

• Early Career Award - Translation

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  

• Quantitative Perfusion: Why and how we do it

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  7:20 AM - 7:35 AM  

• Exaggerated Blood Pressure Response During Exercise Is Associated with Pathological Remodelling in Veteran Athletes

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  10:15 AM - 10:22 AM  

• The unmet clinical need for new software based solutions

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  11:10 AM - 11:17 AM  

• Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop:The Future of Stress Testing: Precision Quantitative Perfusion by CMR (Pre-registration Required)

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  

• Characterising heart failure associated with diabetes using cardiac MRI and blood transcriptomics

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  2:50 PM - 3:00 PM  

• Redefining the cardiac phenotype of uraemic cardiomyopathy: Insights from contrast enhanced CMR

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  4:13 PM - 4:20 PM  

• Microstructural Abnormalities in Heart Failure with Improved Ejection Fraction: Insights from Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  3:59 PM - 4:06 PM  

• Measurement of myocardial extracellular volume fraction and cardiomyocyte diameter before and 6 months after aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis

  Friday, February 6, 2026
  3:52 PM - 3:59 PM  

• Cardiovascular structure, function and myocardial energetics in Psoriatic Arthritis using cardiac magnetic resonance and 31-P spectroscopy

  Saturday, February 7, 2026
  10:15 AM - 10:22 AM  

• Using the myocardial transcriptome to explore cardiac imaging phenotypes in patients with severe aortic stenosis

  Saturday, February 7, 2026
  10:22 AM - 10:29 AM