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Does CT imaging reveal myocardial fatty foci in patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex compared to matched controls?
Does CT imaging reveal myocardial fatty foci in patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex compared to matched controls?
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Well-circumscribed foci of fat attenuation in the myocardium on CT appear to be a characteristic finding of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.
Despite incomplete depiction of the heart with CT, the majority of patients with TSC demonstrated well-circumscribed foci of fat attenuation in the myocardium that were not present in age- and sex-matched control subjects. This suggests that such fatty foci may be another characteristic of TSC.
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Adriaensen et al. (2009) studied this question.
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