Myocardial fibrosis and prognosis in heart transplant recipients

A Hughes, O Okasha, A Farzaneh-Far… - Circulation …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
… Whether myocardial fibrosis in heart transplant recipients is … myocardial fibrosis on late
gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in heart transplant

Impact of sirolimus as a primary immunosuppressant on myocardial fibrosis and diastolic function following heart transplantation

H Alnsasra, R Asleh, JK Oh… - … of the American Heart …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
… In 100 heart transplantation recipients who were either treated with a calcineurin inhibitor (…
right heart catheterizations. Myocardial fibrosis was quantified on serial myocardial biopsies. …

Endomyocardial fibrosis: an update after 70 years

AO Mocumbi, JR Stothard, P Correia-de-Sá… - Current cardiology …, 2019 - Springer
… the right ventricle of a patient who died from severe right endomyocardial fibrosis with chronic
heart failure, which … Cardiac transplantation has been used only sporadically. Early open-…

Progression of myocardial fibrosis in nonischemic DCM and association with mortality and heart failure outcomes

A Mandawat, P Chattranukulchai, A Mandawat… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - jacc.org
… and extent of fibrosis changes over time in patients with … heart failure hospitalization,
aborted sudden cardiac death, left ventricular (LV) assist device implantation, or heart transplant

Myofibroblast phenotype and reversibility of fibrosis in patients with end-stage heart failure

CK Nagaraju, EL Robinson, M Abdesselem… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
… time of heart transplantation (HF, both ischemic cardiomyopathy [ICM] and DCM), and samples
from nonfailing hearts (Non-HF). In these human heart samples, we examine fibrosis and …

Myocardial fibrosis: morphologic patterns and role of imaging in diagnosis and prognostication

C Giordano, M Francone, G Cundari, A Pisano… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - Elsevier
… The present Review focuses on the morphologic patterns of MF observed either at autopsy
and heart transplant, or in vivo by non-invasive imaging techniques. Main aim is to provide …

Myocardial fibrosis as a predictor of sudden death in patients with coronary artery disease

A Zegard, O Okafor, J De Bono, M Kalla… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
Cardiac transplantation was undertaken in 2 patients and left ventricular assist device …
cardiac death and the arrhythmic endpoint in the subcohort of patients with myocardial fibrosis on …

Left atrial strain by speckle tracking predicts atrial fibrosis in patients undergoing heart transplantation

M Lisi, GE Mandoli, M Cameli… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… In Figure 2, atrial bioptic specimens from our population show increasing grades of LA
myocardial fibrosis. Mean Peak VO 2 was 12.6 ± 1.9 mL/kg/min and mean N-terminal pro-brain …

Impact of myocardial fibrosis on left ventricular remodelling, recovery, and outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in different haemodynamic subtypes of …

M Puls, BE Beuthner, R Topci… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… to their MF burden into patients with myocardial fibrosis above (MF+) and below (MF−) the
median of the entire cohort (11%) (Table 2). MF+ patients were younger and more likely to …

Myocardial fibrosis predicts ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death after cardiac electronic device implantation

F Leyva, A Zegard, O Okafor, P Foley, F Umar… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
… presence of myocardial fibrosis on visual assessment (MF VA ) and gray zone fibrosis (GZF)
mass predicts sudden cardiac death (… Cardiac transplantation was undertaken in 7 (0.01%) …