The amount of late gadolinium enhancement outperforms current guideline-recommended criteria in the identification of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at risk of sudden cardiac death.
Pedro FreitasAntónio Miguel FerreiraEdmundo Arteaga-FernándezMurrilo de Oliveira AntunesJoão MesquitaJoão AbecasisHugo MarquesCarla SaraivaDaniel Nascimento MatosRita RodriguesNuno CardimCharles MadyCarlos Eduardo RochittePublished in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2019)
The amount of LGE seems to outperform the HCM Risk-SCD score and the ACCF/AHA algorithm in the identification of HCM patients at increased risk of SCD and reclassifies a relevant proportion of patients.