While increasing the number of participants could potentially identify a statistically significant difference in the strains in severely fibrotic regions, the large variance in regional strains means that the difference may not be practically significant or useful clinically as a surrogate in identifying localized fibrosis on a per-patient basis.
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Is regional atrial strain a useful surrogate of regional atrial fibrosis in atrial cardiomyopathy?
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