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Myocardial fibrosis as an early manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
The New England journal of medicine - 5 Aug 2010
Ho Carolyn Y, López Begoña, Coelho-Filho Otavio R, Lakdawala Neal K, Cirino Allison L, Jarolim Petr, Kwong Raymond, González Arantxa, Colan Steven D, Seidman J G, Díez Javier, Seidman Christine E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Myocardial fibrosis is a hallmark of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a proposed substrate for arrhythmias and heart failure. In animal models, profibrotic genetic pathways are activated early, before hypertrophic remodeling. Data showing early profibrotic responses to sarcomere-gene mutations in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are lacking. METHODS: We used echocardiography, cardiac magnetic...
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