Purpose To determine whether left atrial (LA) strain quantification with cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging feature tracking is associated with the severity of LA fibrofatty myocardial remodeling at histologic analysis. Materials and Methods This prospective case-control study was approved by the institutional review board. LA strain was evalu...
The findings in and experiences with 19 consecutive patients subjected to open mitral valve surgery are described. All patients underwent a right-heart catheterization. In order to exclude multivalvular heart disease, a left-heart catheterization was performed in 10 patients and angiographic studies of the aortic valve area in 12. Pulmonary functio...