Mitral Valve Abnormalities Identified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Represent a Primary Phenotypic Expression of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Author(s) -
Martin S. Maron,
Iacopo Olivotto,
Caitlin Harrigan,
Evan Appelbaum,
C. Michael Gibson,
John R. Lesser,
Tammy S. Haas,
James E. Udelson,
Warren J. Manning,
Barry J. Maron
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.110.985812
Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , cardiology , mitral valve , cardiomyopathy , magnetic resonance imaging , muscle hypertrophy , heart failure , radiology
Whether morphological abnormalities of the mitral valve represent part of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) disease process is unresolved. Therefore, we applied cardiovascular magnetic resonance to characterize mitral valve morphology in a large HCM cohort.
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