Fig. 3

Representative CMRI images indicating the correlations between FFA and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) in male and female patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. a, b End-diastolic four-chamber view cine images of two male patients with plasma FFA levels of 0.22 and 0.69 mmol/L, and their LVIMI were 53.5 and 119.6 kg/m², respectively. c, d Images of two female patients with plasma FFA levels of 0.30 and 0.73 mmol/L, and their LVIMI were 74.1 and 70.5 kg/m², respectively