Population
27 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and evidence for myocardial injury as defined by late…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Focal T2 changes may mark more severe HCM with LGE; hypothesis-generating for prognostic value, requiring longitudinal validation before clinical use.
Focal T2 abnormalities on CMR are present in a subset of HCM patients with LGE and correlate with more severe left ventricular hypertrophy, suggesting a mechanism of focal irreversible injury.
Abdel‐Aty et al. (2008) studied this question.
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