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01-12-2012 | Oral presentation
Diabetics without prior cardiovascular disease have diffuse interstitial fibrosis by CMR independent of clinical risk factors
Authors:
Ravi Shah, Ajay Rao, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Raymond Kwong, Gail K Adler
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
As a precursor to overt heart failure, diabetics experience a unique alteration in myocardial architecture marked by diffuse interstitial fibrosis. We hypothesized that the myocardial extracellular volume fraction (MECVF) could be used to detect myocardial matrix remodeling and its relationship to ventricular structure and function in diabetics without cardiovascular disease. …