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Impact of cardiac magnetic resonance on the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a 10-year experience with over 1000 patients.

Mateusz ŚpiewakMariusz KłopotowskiNatalia OjrzyńskaJoanna Petryka-MazurkiewiczBarbara Miłosz-WieczorekŁukasz MazurkiewiczJacek GrzybowskiZofia BilińskaAdam WitkowskiMagdalena Marczak
Published in: European radiology (2020)
• Out of 550 patients previously diagnosed with echocardiography but without magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as having hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), we diagnosed a different disease in 12 (2.2%) patients using MRI. • Among patients with suspected HCM based on echocardiography, MRI led to clear HCM diagnosis in 44.7% of patients. • In patients with a history of uncontrolled hypertension suspected, based on an echocardiogram, of having HCM, MRI aided in identifying cardiomyopathy in 47.9% of patients. This subgroup contained the largest proportion of patients with an ambiguous diagnosis.
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