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Native T1 and Extracellular Volume in Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
JACC. Cardiovascular imaging - 1 May 2019
Martinez-Naharro Ana, Kotecha Tushar, Norrington Karl, Boldrini Michele, Rezk Tamer, Quarta Candida, Treibel Thomas A, Whelan Carol J, Knight Daniel S, Kellman Peter, Ruberg Frederick L, Gillmore Julian D, Moon James C, Hawkins Philip N, Fontana Marianna
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the prognostic potential of native myocardial T1 in cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) and compared native T1 with extracellular volume (ECV) in terms of diagnostic accuracy and prognosis. BACKGROUND: ATTR is an increasingly recognized cause of heart failure that has an overlapping clinical phenotype with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Native T1 mapping by cardiac...
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