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The current and emerging role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Journal of cardiovascular translational research - 1 Dec 2009
Maron Martin S
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiomyopathy with substantial heterogeneity in phenotypic expression and clinical course. Traditionally, two-dimensional echocardiography has been the easiest and most reliable technique for establishing a diagnosis of HCM. However, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has emerged as a novel, three-dimensional tomographic imaging technique, which...
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