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Regional Heterogeneity in 3D Myocardial Shortening in Hypertensive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: A Cardiovascular CMR Tagging Substudy to the Life Study.

Robert W W BiedermanAlistair A YoungMark DoyleRichard B DevereuxEduardo KortrightGilbert PerryJonathan N BellaSuzanne OparilDavid CalhounGerald M PohostLouis J Dell'Italia
Published in: Journal of biomedical science and engineering (2015)
In patients with hypertensive LVH, despite normal LV function via echocardiography or CMR, CMR intramyocardial tagging show depressed global MWCS while 3D MR strain revealed marked underlying regional heterogeneity of LV dysfunction.
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