Do CMR-derived measures and molecular biomarkers correlate with myocardial fibrosis and function in individuals with hypertensive heart disease?
CMR-derived measures of fibrosis and function are related in hypertensive heart disease, while molecular biomarkers show limited association with imaging findings.
In individuals with HHD, CMR-derived measures of myocardial fibrosis and function are related and might be useful tools for the identification and characterization of preclinical cardiac dysfunction and diffuse myocardial fibrosis. Molecular biomarkers of fibrosis were marginally associated with myocardial strain, but not with the extension of CMR-measured cardiac fibrosis.
Pichler et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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