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Characterization of altered myocardial fatty acid metabolism in patients with inherited cardiomyopathy.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Nov 2001
Bergmann S R, Herrero P, Sciacca R, Hartman J J, Rubin P J, Hickey K T, Epstein S, Kelly D P
Abstract excerpt
Inherited defects in myocardial long-chain fatty acid metabolism are increasingly recognized as a cause of cardiomyopathy and sudden death in children. To evaluate whether the phenotypic expression of these genetic diseases could be delineated using positron emission tomography (PET), 11 patients with inherited defects in fatty acid metabolism were evaluated and results were compared with those of 6 nonaffected...
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