Clinical topic: Nuclear imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Non-invasive cardiac imaging plays a central role in the diagnosis and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Transthoracic echocardiography is the imaging technique of first choice to evaluate wall thickness, left ventricular systolic and diastolic function, presence of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, and abnormal mitral anatomy, whereas cardiac magnetic resonance provides...

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• Myocardial Ischemia
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Diastole
• Gadolinium
• Radionuclide Imaging