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J Am Soc Echocardiogr · Oct 2009
Case ReportsSevere left ventricular wall thinning and extensive fibrosis without evolution to end stage disease in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Gabriele Egidy Assenza, Paolo Spirito, Maria Beatrice Musumeci, Massimo Lombardi, Giovanni Quarta, and Camillo Autore.
- Department of Cardiology II, Faculty of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. gabriele.assenza@uniroma1.it
- J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2009 Oct 1; 22 (10): 1196.e1-2.
AbstractThe authors report the case of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who developed progressive and severe left ventricular wall thinning, as assessed by two-dimensional echocardiography, despite a preserved supranormal ejection fraction and an absence of cardiac symptoms. Extensive fibrosis was identified on cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
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