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The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
Reviews in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Jan 2016
Marchesini Marco, Uguccioni Lucia, Parisi Rosario, Mattioli Gianmaria, Terzi Francesca, Olivieri Roberto, Capucci Alessandro, Fattori Rossella
Abstract excerpt
Until recently, the only imaging technique for the diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was two-dimensional echocardiography, and the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) was limited to patients with poor acoustic windows. Now, cMRI has gained an essential role in the diagnosis of HCM, providing superior visualization of myocardial hypertrophy-even in remote zones of the left...
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