CMR imaging of extracellular volume and myocardial strain in hypertensive heart disease

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¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: william.h.gaasch@lahey.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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William H Gaasch et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Feb.

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. 2015 Feb;8(2):181-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.12.002.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: william.h.gaasch@lahey.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: T1 mapping; cardiac magnetic resonance; extracellular volume; hypertension; left ventricular hypertrophy.

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Increased extracellular volume and altered mechanics are associated with LVH in hypertensive heart disease, not hypertension alone.
Kuruvilla S, Janardhanan R, Antkowiak P, Keeley EC, Adenaw N, Brooks J, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Kuruvilla S, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Feb;8(2):172-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.09.020. Epub 2015 Jan 7. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015. PMID: 25577446 Free PMC article.