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Editorial
. 2016 Jul;9(7):e003272.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003272.

Zooming in on the Microvasculature in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Selma F Mohammed  1 , David T Majure  1 , Margaret M Redfield  2
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Editorial

Zooming in on the Microvasculature in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Selma F Mohammed et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; coronary circulation; heart failure; magnetic resonance imaging; nuclear cardiology and PET.

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Figure 1
Microvascular density (MVD) assessed in myocardial autopsy specimens from patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and similarly aged patients dying of non-cardiovascular causes (Controls). The differential distribution of global average (A) and regional (B) MVD in the two groups and representative examples from HFpEF (C) and Control (D) patients are shown. Abbreviations: epi, epicardial; midwall, mid-myocardial, endo, endocardial; pap, papillary muscle. Reproduced with permission from Mohammed et al. © 2015 Wolters Kluwer.
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Figure 2
Comparison of coronary flow reserve between heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) patients, non-HF hypertensive patients with ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and healthy (Controls) patients. Reproduced from Kato et al with permission. © 2016 The Authors.
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