Left Ventricular Mass and Wall Thickness Measurements Using Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI in Patients with Fabry Disease: Clinical Significance of Discrepant Findings.
Ciara O'BrienIan BrittonGauri R KarurRobert M IwanochkoChantal F MorelElsie T NguyenPaaladinesh ThavendiranathanAnna WooKate HannemanPublished in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)
TTE overestimates LVM and MWT and has lower reproducibility compared with cardiac MRI in Fabry disease. Measurement discrepancies between modalities are clinically significant with respect to diagnosis of LVH, prognosis, and treatment decisions.© RSNA, 2020.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- replacement therapy
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- diffusion weighted imaging
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- magnetic resonance
- optical coherence tomography
- coronary artery disease
- smoking cessation