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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Pathol. 2010 Apr 9;20(2):e69–e78. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2010.03.001

Figure 5. The Presence of Chondro-Osteogenic Mass Formation in the Heart is related to a Decrease Cardiac Function.

Figure 5

Fractional Shortening Comparison of Calcified vs. Not Calcified. Animals in Fractional shortening analysis of the rats from Group 1 (A, ligation only) and Group 2 (B, ligation and AFS cell injection) show decreased fractional shortening in the animals that had calcifications. When pooling the animals in the groups together (C), the results demonstrate that there is a significant difference between the calcified and non-calcified group’s fractional shortenings at 3 months. (p=0.031). This data suggests that rats that had presence of calcifications also had a decreased functional improvement.