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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with restrictive phenotype and myocardial crypts.
Journal of thoracic imaging - 1 Nov 2010
Cannavale Alessandro, Ordovás Karen G, Rame Eduardo J, Higgins Charles B
Abstract excerpt
This report describes a 22-year-old woman who has clinical and physiologic features of a restrictive cardiomyopathy. Magnetic resonance imaging showed myocardial delayed enhancement and interventricular septal crypts characteristic of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Transcatheter biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, revealing marked myocyte hypertrophy, interstitial fibrosis, and fiber disarray, which are findings...
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