Article
The diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance - 20 Feb 2012
Noureldin Radwa A, Liu Songtao, Nacif Marcelo S, Judge Daniel P, Halushka Marc K, Abraham Theodore P, Ho Carolyn, Bluemke David A
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic disease of the heart. HCM is characterized by a wide range of clinical expression, ranging from asymptomatic mutation carriers to sudden cardiac death as the first manifestation of the disease. Over 1000 mutations have been identified, classically in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins. Noninvasive imaging is central to the diagnosis of HCM and...
Topics
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Familial
- Contrast Media
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Disease Progression
- Fibrosis
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging