Journal: European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging
Article Title: Peripheral microvascular function is linked to cardiac involvement on cardiovascular magnetic resonance in systemic sclerosis–related pulmonary arterial hypertension
doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeae001
Figure Lengend Snippet: The figure shows a typical example of a picture of the nailfold capillaroscopy and parametric mapping in a patient with IPAH (in blue) and in a patient with SSc–PAH (in red). Most patients with SSc–PAH had a typical late SSc pattern on nailfold capillaroscopy, with low nailfold capillary density, whereas patients with IPAH had a normal or non-specific pattern with normal capillary density. In addition, patients with SSc–PAH had higher T 2 values (cardiac inflammation) and a trend towards a higher ECV (cardiac fibrosis) compared with patients with IPAH. CMR, cardiovascular magnetic resonance; ECV, extracellular volume fraction; (I)PAH, (idiopathic) pulmonary arterial hypertension; SSc, systemic sclerosis.
Article Snippet: All patients were scanned on a commercially available clinical CMR scanner (1.5 T Siemens Avanto).
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