CMR is a versatile and accurate imaging tool for assessing cardiovascular complications, understanding pathophysiology, and excluding secondary causes of systemic hypertension.
Supports detailed phenotyping of hypertensive heart disease with CMR; leaves open prospective outcome studies before clinical adoption.
Systemic hypertension is a highly prevalent potentially modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis of underlying causes for hypertension, in assessing cardiovascular complications of hypertension, and in understanding the pathophysiology of the disease process. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) provides accurate and reproducible measures of ventricular volumes, mass, function and haemodynamics as well as uniquely allowing tissue characterization of diffuse and focal fibrosis. In addition, CMR is well suited for exclusion of common secondary causes for hypertension. We review the current and emerging clinical and research applications of CMR in hypertension.
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