Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for discrimination of hypertensive heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Differentiating hypertensive heart disease (HHD) from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is crucial yet challenging due to overlapping clinical and morphological features. Recent studies have explored the use of various cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) parameters to distinguish between these conditions, but findings have remained inconclusive. This study aims to identify which CMR parameters effectively discriminate between HHD and HCM and to investigate their underlying pathophysiological mechanisms through a meta-analysis.

Methods

The researchers conducted a systematic and comprehensive search for all studies that used CMR to discriminate between HHD and HCM and calculated the Hedges'g effect size for each of the included studies, which were then pooled using a

SUBMITTER: Zhao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11327824 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature