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Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) can provide unique data on the transmural extent of scar/viability. We assessed the prevalence of dysfunctional myocardium, including partial thickness scar, which could contribute to left ventricular contract...

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Autores principales: Bourantas, Christos V, Nikitin, Nikolay P, Loh, Huan P, Lukaschuk, Elena I, Sherwi, Nassar, de Silva, Ramesh, Tweddel, Ann C, Alamgir, Mohamed F, Wong, Kenneth, Gupta, Sanjay, Clark, Andrew L, Cleland, John GF
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21936915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-53