Reply to: Left Ventricular Mass as a Confounder of Stress CMR and Invasive Coronary Angiography Concordance: Mechanistic Insights and Clinical Implications

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how left ventricular mass influences the agreement between stress CMR and invasive coronary angiography results.
• Review of existing literature on stress CMR and coronary angiography concordance
• Analysis of confounding factors impacting diagnostic interpretation
• Discussion of mechanistic insights into left ventricular mass effects
• Left ventricular mass significantly affects the concordance between stress CMR findings and invasive coronary angiography results.
• Mechanistic insights suggest that adjustments for left ventricular mass could improve diagnostic accuracy.
• Identifying left ventricular mass as a confounder has important clinical implications for patient evaluation.