Sun, Jianhong
Yin, Geng
Xu, Yuanwei
Wu, Yang
Yu, Liuyu
Li, Weihao
Wan, Ke
Sun, Jiayu
Zhang, Qing
Xie, Qibing
Chen, Yucheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30901339 and No. 81172869)
the Application Foundation Project in Sichuan Province (No. 2016JY0021 and No. 2017JY0025)
1·3·5 project for disciplines of excellence–Clinical Research Incubation Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (Z2018A08, ZYJC18013)
·Clinical Research Incubation Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (2019HXFH038)
Article History
Received: 13 July 2020
Revised: 9 September 2020
Accepted: 29 October 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yucheng Chen, MD, Professor, Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guo Xue Xiang, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China. Tel: 86-18980602149, Fax: 86-028-85422836, Email: chenyucheng2003@126.com.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: Dr. Jianhong Sun and Geng Yin had expertise in statistics; they took responsibility for the study design, the acquisition and interpretation of the data and the accuracy of statistical analysis.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Sichuan University West China Hospital.
: The study subjects and cohorts partially overlapped with our recent publication “Xu Y, Sun J, Wan K, et al Multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance characteristics and dynamic changes in myocardial and skeletal muscles in idiopathic inflammatory cardiomyopathy. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2020;22(1):22. Published 2020 Apr 9. ExternalRef removed”. About 80% of patients overlapped in our study. The submitted article focused on the different characteristics by CMR in different IIM subtypes and explored the relationship of cardiac involvement and serum markers. While the recent published article focused on the CMR dynamic changes in myocardial and skeletal muscles in patients with IIM.
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