Prevalence of increased myocardial extracellular volume fraction in dilated cardiomyopathy
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Background Extracellular volume fraction cardiac magnetic resonance (ECV-CMR) enables quantitative myocardial tissue characterization. Increased myocardial ECV is correlated to myocardial fibrosis, inversely related to the left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF), and an independent predictor of mortality. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by decreased LVEF and increased LV end-diastolic volume (EDV). We sought to determine the prevalence of increased myocardial ECV in DCM.
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