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Ultrasonic Reflectivity of the Heart: A Measure of Fibrosis?

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Hypertension and the Heart

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Abstract

The conventional echo image depicts at a relative low resolution the echo reflections from the various components of the myocardium, such as muscle fibers, capillaries and collagen strands, acting as diffuse reflectors. In normal conditions the resulting ultrasonic image texture of the myocardium is rather fine and homogeneous, and it is bordered by two thin echolucent lines corresponding to the wide endocardium-blood and epicardium-lung acoustic interfaces1.

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  1. Centro di Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione Istituto di Clinica Medica Generale e Terapia Medica Ospedale Maggiore, Università di Milano, Italy

    Michele Ciulla, Roberta Paliotti & Fabio Magrini

  2. Cattedra di Medicina Interna, C.L.O. Università di Cagliari, Italy

    Fabio Magrini

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  1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  2. Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, USA

    Richard B. Devereux

  3. University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lennart Hansson

  4. International Menarini Foundation, Milan, Italy

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Ciulla, M., Paliotti, R., Magrini, F. (1997). Ultrasonic Reflectivity of the Heart: A Measure of Fibrosis?. In: Zanchetti, A., Devereux, R.B., Hansson, L., Gorini, S. (eds) Hypertension and the Heart. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 432. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5385-4_5

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