Left Ventricular Deformation and Myocardial Fibrosis in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure Requiring Transplantation - Cameli, Matteo; Mondillo, Sergio; Righini, Francesca Maria; Lisi, Matteo; Dokollari, Aleksander; Lindqvist, Per; Maccherini, Massimo; Henein, Michael (Journal of cardiac failure, 2016)
Keywords: Advanced cardiac failure; Aged; Biopsy, Needle; Cardiovascular; Cohort Studies; Comorbidity; Databases, Factual; echocardiography; Echocardiography - methods; Female; Fibrosis - diagnostic imaging; Fibrosis - epidemiology; Fibrosis - pathology; Fibrosis - surgery; Heart Failure - diagnostic imaging; Heart Failure - epidemiology; Heart Failure - surgery; heart transplantation; Heart Transplantation - methods; Heart Transplantation - mortality; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Immunohistochemistry; Italy; LV fibrosis; LV strain; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardium - pathology; Patient Selection; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; ROC Curve; Severity of Illness Index; speckle tracking; Stroke Volume - physiology; Survival Analysis; Treatment Outcome; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - epidemiology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - pathology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - surgery; speckle tracking; LV strain; Advanced cardiac failure; heart transplantation; LV fibrosis; echocardiography; advanced cardiac failure