Concentric remodeling and myocardial dysfunction
Carol Lovegrove
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Concentric remodeling is generally thought to be a compensatory response to increased cardiac afterload, but the way in which it develops into myocardial dysfunction and congestive heart failure is unclear. To examine the relationship between concentric remodeling and regional left ventricular failure, Rosen and colleagues used quantitative analysis of tagged MRI to look at regional myocardial function in a cross-sectional study of individuals with no previous history of heart disease who were participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
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