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The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of subclinical myocardial changes detected by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) in patients with idiopathic PVCs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this cross-sectional study, thirty-three patients (age 54\u2009\u00b1\u200917 years, 19 male) with idiopathic PVCs diagnosed using ECG and echocardiography who subsequently underwent CMRI at 3-Tesra between September 2019 and May 2024 were included in this study. CMRI, including late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), native T1 values, and extracellular volume fraction (ECV), was performed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      PVCs most frequently originated from the right ventricular outflow tract (15 of 33 patients, 45%). CMR identified myocardial changes in 17\/33 (52%). LGE was present in 11\/33 (33%). Importantly, mapping-derived indices (native T1 values\/ECV) revealed subclinical interstitial changes in several patients, including those without LGE (four with elevated native T1 and two with elevated ECV). Among patients with myocardial changes, the incidence of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia and the maximum consecutive number of PVCs were significantly higher than in those without myocardial changes (\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05 for both).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this exploratory study, multiparametric CMRI frequently revealed subclinical myocardial changes in patients with idiopathic PVCs despite normal ECG and echocardiography. Given the small sample size and the heterogeneous, ECG-based estimation of PVC origin, these findings should be considered hypothesis-generating, and larger studies are warranted.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcvm.2026.1650580","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,19]],"date-time":"2026-02-19T06:40:54Z","timestamp":1771483254000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Subclinical myocardial changes in idiopathic premature ventricular contractions: insights from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yoshinao","family":"Yazaki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital","place":["Tokyo, Japan"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hisanori","family":"Kosuge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of 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