Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Characterization of Silent Myocardial Involvement in Patients With Primary Biliary Cholangitis

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy is a major complication and cause of morbidity in end-stage primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). However, it is unclear whether there is clinically silent myocardial involvement at the early stage of PBC before cirrhosis and cardiac manifestations. This prospective, three-center, multi-modality cardiac imaging study on the early identification of myocardial impairment in PBC (EARLY-MYO-PBC) was designed to identify silent myocardial impairment in PBC patients without cardiac manifestations.

Source: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology - August 27, 2021 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Pan Jiang, Zehao Feng, Li Sheng, Chenxi Hu, Xiang Ma, Shouyan Zhang, Lianming Wu, Xiao Xiao, Qixia Wang, Canjie Guo, Dekai Qiu, Jingyuan Fang, Jianrong Xu, Merrill Eric Gershwin, Meng Jiang, Xiong Ma, Jun Pu Source Type: research