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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Cardiac steatosis and left ventricular remodeling in heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction
Authors:
Masliza Mahmod, Nikhil Pal, Cameron Holloway, Vanessa M Ferreira, Sairia Dass, Jane M Francis, Oliver Rider, Theodoros D Karamitsos, Houman Ashrafian, Stefan Neubauer
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Heart failure (HF) is characterised by alterations in fatty acid and glucose metabolism. We aimed to determine if myocardial lipid is increased in HF with reduced (HFrEF) and preserved (HFpEF) ejection fraction (EF), and assess whether it is related to cardiac structure and function. …