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. 2018 Jun 18;11(6):e007451. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.117.007451

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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Figure 3. — Changes in left ventricular mass (LVM), diffuse fibrosis, and replacement fibrosis in aortic stenosis before and after valve replacement. Longitudinal changes in LVM index (LVMi), diffuse fibrosis (indexed extracellular volume [iECV]), and replacement fibrosis (late gadolinium enhancement [LGE]) before and after valve replacement (AVR) are illustrated with 2 example patients (A and B). All 3 measures increase exponentially as stenosis severity increases (patient A, natural history cohort), and new areas of LGE are seen on follow-up imaging (red arrows). However, after AVR, cellular hypertrophy regresses more quickly than diffuse fibrosis, and replacement fibrosis seems unchanged (patient B, white arrows). AVR indicates aortic valve replacement; and V_max, peak aortic-jet velocity.