Diffuse myocardial fibrosis and the prognosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in Chinese patients: a cohort study

• Published in: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 671 - 689
• Main Authors: Li, Fuhai, Xu, Mengying, Fan, Yuyuan, Wang, Yanyan, Song, Yu, Cui, Xiaotong, Fu, Mingqiang, Qi, Baozheng, Han, Xueting, Zhou, Jingmin, Ge, Junbo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Bilirubin; Blood pressure; Body mass index; Body size; Cardiac Imaging; Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Cohort analysis; Congestive heart failure; Creatinine; Diabetes mellitus; Disease control; Diuretics; Ejection fraction; Etiology; Fibrosis; Heart failure; Heart rate; Hematocrit; Hypertension; Imaging; Independent variables; Magnetic resonance; Mapping; Medical prognosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Paper; Patients; Prognosis; Radiology; Regression analysis; Subgroups; Urea; Uric acid; Magnetic resonance imaging heart failure; Prognosis; Diffuse myocardial fibrosis

Evidence regarding the relationship between diffuse myocardial fibrosis and the prognosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) was limited. Therefore, this study set out to investigate whether diffuse myocardial fibrosis was independently related to the prognosis of failure with r...