Myocardial scar as arrhythmia risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Luciano C. Amado,Joao Ac Lima

Myocardial scar as arrhythmia risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

2010

Luciano C. Amado
Joao Ac Lima

Purpose of reviewTo provide an overview of the potential use of contrast-enhanced MRI as tool for further risk stratification in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).Recent findingsThe presence of scar measured by contrast-enhanced MRI has been shown to predict poor prognosis in several m

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Ventricular tachycardia
CONTRAST ENHANCED MRI
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Sudden cardiac death
Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Text mining
risk stratification
in patient
poor prognosis

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