Fig. 3From: Myocardial fibrosis in asymptomatic and symptomatic chronic severe primary mitral regurgitation and relationship to tissue characterisation and left ventricular function on cardiovascular magnetic resonanceRelationship between ECV and histological evidence of interstitial fibrosis on biopsy (CVFmean) for a all biopsies, and b biopsies containing only myocardium. The trendlines are based on regression models, with ECV as the independent variable, and Log2CVFmean as the independent variable. This relationship was not found to be statistically significant when all biopsies were included within analyses (a, Rho = 0.18, P = 0.101, N = 83), but became statistically significant when limiting analyses to biopsies that contained only myocardium (b, Rho = 0.33, P = 0.015, N = 56)Back to article page