Extracellular volume fraction provides more imformation than fibrosis
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Background Extracellular volume fraction (ECV) has been applied to the detection of diffuse myocardial interstitial fibrosis or exudative pathologic changes in various clinical settings, but there is lack of study to date concerning the significance of ECV at the early phase of left ventricular remodeling. We intended to assess myocardial ECV in essential hypertension and to study the implications of ECV to the early phase of left ventricular remodeling.
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دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015