Non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy and cardiac fibrosis

BO Cojan-Minzat, A Zlibut, L Agoston-Coldea - Heart Failure Reviews, 2021 - Springer
… the extension of myocardial fibrosis, but their cutoff values for fibrosis grading have not yet
myocardial fibrosis, acted as an significant predictor for all cause mortality and for cardiac

Extent of myocardial fibrosis and cellular hypertrophy in dilated cardiomyopathy

DV Unverferth, PB Baker, SE Swift, R Chaffee… - The American journal of …, 1986 - Elsevier
… patients with dilated car- diomyopathy (DC) show severe dilatation of all cardiac chambers
… are often hypertrophied and fibrotic tissue is abundant.zs3 Fibrosis is produced in response …

Myocardial fibrosis as a key determinant of left ventricular remodeling in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: a contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic study

PG Masci, R Schuurman, B Andrea… - Circulation …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
… which patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy should be implanted with a …
myocardial fibrosis is not a fixed but rather a dynamic process in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Association of fibrosis with mortality and sudden cardiac death in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

A Gulati, A Jabbour, TF Ismail, K Guha, J Khwaja… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
… Although the mechanisms underlying SCD in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy are
poorly characterized, there is emerging evidence to suggest that myocardial fibrosis forms the …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance, fibrosis, and prognosis in dilated cardiomyopathy

RG Assomull, SK Prasad, J Lyne, G Smith… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - jacc.org
… We studied the prognostic implications of midwall fibrosis in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) …
Our study using CMR to detect myocardial fibrosis accords with studies in other conditions. …

The Role of Myocarditis and Myocardial Fibrosis in Dilated Cardiornyopathy Analysis of 28 Necropsy Cases

N MAEHASHI, Y YOKOTA, A TAKARADA… - Japanese heart …, 1991 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… the role of myocarditis and fibrosis in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The extent of fibrosis
and … The degree and pattern of fibrosis varied widely from case to case. The DCM cases were …

Myocardial fibrosis as a pathway of prediction of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

OA Centurión, JF Alderete, JM Torales… - Critical pathways in …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… the role of myocardial fibrosis assessed by LGE cardiac MRI in the … dilated cardiomyopathy,
ventricular fibrosis, LGE cardiac MRI, heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac

… presence and amount of myocardial fibrosis by cardiac magnetic resonance on arrhythmic outcome and sudden cardiac death in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

MP Marra, M De Lazzari, A Zorzi, F Migliore, F Zilio… - Heart Rhythm, 2014 - Elsevier
… of myocardial fibrosis in ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy vs NIDC. While ventricular
tachyarrhythmias are mechanistically (ie, scar-related macroreentry) and, thus, quantitatively related …

… and prognostic importance of myocardial fibrosis in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy assessed by contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

JL Looi, C Edwards, GP Armstrong… - Clinical Medicine …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… This study demonstrates that CE-CMR imaged LGE consistent with myocardial fibrosis is
found in nearly one third of DCM, and that both the presence and pattern of LGE are associated …

Ultrasonic myocardial tissue characterization in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: value in noninvasive assessment of myocardial fibrosis

J Naito, T Masuyama, T Mano, H Kondo… - American heart …, 1996 - Elsevier
… and degeneration or disarrangement of myocardial fibro- … to regional myocardial function
and myocardial fibrosis but also … of myocardial fiber, elastic property of the myocardium, and so …