Cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of myocardial extracellular volume in health and disease
Why the study?
Does equilibrium contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of myocardial extracellular volume show gender differences and disease-specific variability?
Population
Normal individuals and patients with cardiac disease
Design
Other
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Discussion
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Implication
May inform gender-specific ECV norms; leaves open validation as clinical biomarker.
Structured PICO
Does equilibrium contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of myocardial extracellular volume show gender differences and disease-specific variability?
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Population
Normal individuals and patients with cardiac disease
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Intervention
Equilibrium contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for assessing myocardial extracellular volume (ECV)
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Outcome
Myocardial extracellular volume (ECV)surrogate
Myocardial ECV assessed by equilibrium contrast CMR shows early potential as a useful biomarker in health and disease.
Cite This Study
Sado et al. (2012) studied this question.