Interstitial Fibrosis, Functional Status, and Outcomes in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Author(s) -
Franz Duca,
Andreas A. Kammerlander,
Caroline ZotterTufaro,
Stefan Aschauer,
Marianne L. Schwaiger,
Beatrice A. Marzluf,
Diana Bonderman,
Julia Mascherbauer
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.584
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1942-0080
pISSN - 1941-9651
DOI - 10.1161/circimaging.116.005277
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , ejection fraction , fibrosis , cardiology
Myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) accumulation is one of the key pathophysiologic features of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Our aims were to (1) measure ECV by cardiac magnetic resonance T1 mapping using the modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) sequence, (2) validate MOLLI-ECV against histology, and (3) investigate the relationship between MOLLI-ECV and prognosis in HFpEF.
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