Magnetic resonance imaging of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Alessandro Cannavale, Karen G Ordovás, Charles B Higgins

Department of Radiology, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

Journal of thoracic imaging 2013 Jan

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically inherited disease with a wide spectrum of phenotypic presentations. It is crucial to establish an early diagnosis and identify patients at high risk for sudden death. Cardiac magnetic resonance can provide subclinical diagnosis, quantification of severity of known disease, risk stratification, and assessment of response to therapy for HCM. This pictorial review summarizes the main magnetic resonance appearances of HCM and its differential diagnosis.

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Alessandro Cannavale, Karen G Ordovás, Charles B Higgins. Magnetic resonance imaging of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of thoracic imaging. 2013 Jan;28(1):W12-8