Authors: J Liu MJ Cramer GE Leenders J Zhao PA Doevendans PG Melman
Publish Date: 2011/05/27
Volume: 18, Issue: 11, Pages: 552-554
Abstract
In this article we present the myocardial deformation imaging MDI studies of three daughters of a man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM who died suddenly The daughters had been referred for genetic counselling several months earlier We demonstrate that despite the absence of conventional twodimensional echo characteristics of HCM MDI accurately and easily demonstrated the presence of the disease in the two daughters with the genetic disorder Neth Heart J 201018452–4
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