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Heart transplant recipients (n=3) developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy years after transplantation, diagnosed by echocardiography and confirmed by cardiac MRI.
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can develop in heart transplant recipients years after transplantation and can be diagnosed using echocardiography and cardiac MRI.
We present 3 heart transplant recipients who developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy years after transplantation. In all 3 cases, the diagnosis was initially made based on echocardiography and confirmed using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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Gao et al. (2023) studied this question. Heart transplant recipients (n=3) developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy years after transplantation, diagnosed by echocardiography and confirmed by cardiac MRI.
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