ReviewCardiology and therapy2020
Myocardial Fibrosis in Heart Failure: Anti-Fibrotic Therapies and the Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Drug Trials.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Myocardial Fibrosis in Cardiovascular Disease: An Integrative Biomarker-Imaging Framework Linking Molecular Mechanisms to Structural Phenotypes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
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- Pelargonidin Inhibits Isoproterenol Induced Myocardial Fibrosis via Regulating Transforming Growth Factor-beta/Smad2/3 Signaling and Th2 Cytokines in Mice.Physiological research · 2026Article
- Design of RGD-functionalized GSH-responsive pegylated polymeric protacs for selective BRD4 degradation and EndMT-driven cardiac fibrosis inhibition.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Addressing Unmet Needs in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Multi-Omics Approaches to Therapeutic Discovery.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Cardio-Vascular Extracellular Matrix: The Unmet Enigma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Unveiling Heart Failure: Gender-Specific Insights and Innovations in Women's Cardiac Health.Current pharmaceutical design · 2026Review
- Ginsenoside Rb1 Mitigates Myocardial Fibrosis Through Inhibiting Exosomal-Derived miRNA-21-Associated Inflammation and Cardiac Signaling.Cardiovascular therapeutics · 2026Article
- Role of Perturbations of Epigenetic Processes in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Fibrotic Scarring.Current cardiology reviews · 2026Review
- The role of different types of programmed cell death in myocardial fibrosis: from mechanisms to therapeutics.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Therapeutic Targets for Myocardial Fibrosis: A Comprehensive Review of Current and Emerging Approaches.Cardiovascular & hematological disorders drug targets · 2026Review
- RNA Therapeutics in Heart Failure.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2025Review
- Identification of epigenetic regulators of fibrotic transformation in cardiac fibroblasts through bulk and single-cell CRISPR screens.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Interpretable machine learning coupled to spatial transcriptomics unveils mechanisms of macrophage-driven fibroblast activation in ischemic cardiomyopathy.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Plasmapheresis as a Potential Generalizable Therapy for Myocardial Infarction.Rejuvenation research · 2025Review
- Tetrahydrocurcumin Outperforms Curcumin in Preventing Oxidative Stress-Induced Dysfunction in Tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide-Stimulated Cardiac Fibroblasts.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The Role of Cardiac Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Myocardial Fibrosis and Its Novel Therapeutic Potential.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Emerging Epigenetic Therapies for the Treatment of Cardiac Fibrosis.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Deciphering myocardial fibrosis: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of mechanism over the period 1992-2023.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
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Abstract
All heart muscle diseases that cause chronic heart failure finally converge into one dreaded pathological process that is myocardial fibrosis. Myocardial fibrosis predicts major adverse cardiovascular events and death, yet we are still missing the targeted therapies capable of halting and/or reversing its progression. Fundamentally it is a problem of disproportionate extracellular collagen accumulation that is part of normal myocardial ageing and accentuated in certain disease states. In this article we discuss the role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging biomarkers to track fibrosis and collate results from the most promising animal and human trials of anti-fibrotic therapies to date. We underscore the ever-growing role of CMR in determining the efficacy of such drugs and encourage future trialists to turn to CMR when designing their surrogate study endpoints.
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