Open AccessMitral Regurgitation
Author(s) -
Michael Conway,
Paul A. Bottomley,
Ronald Ouwerkerk,
George K. Radda,
B. Rajagopalan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.97.17.1716
Subject(s) - medicine , phosphocreatine , cardiology , heart failure , mitral regurgitation , contractility , cardiomyopathy , valvular heart disease , energy metabolism
A number of phosphorus (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies link alterations of high-energy phosphate metabolism in valvular disease and cardiomyopathy to the clinical severity of heart failure. However, correlations between MRS and indexes of ventricular dysfunction are inconclusive to date. We examined whether changes in 31P MRS are associated with the impaired contractility, which predisposes to chronic congestive heart failure in patients with mitral regurgitation.
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