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Long-term risk of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a cardiac magnetic resonance outcome study.

Simon GreulichAndreas SeitzDiana HerterFabian GüntherSabine ProbstRaffi BekeredjianMeinrad GawazUdo SechtemHeiko Mahrholdt
Published in: European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging (2021)
LGE-CMR in HCM patients allows effective 10-year SCD risk stratification beyond established risk factors. LGE amount might be added to established risk models to improve its discriminatory power. Specifically, patients with >5% LGE should be carefully monitored and might be adequate candidates for primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator during the clinical long-term course.
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