Differences in Fabry Cardiomyopathy Between Female and Male Patients
Author(s) -
Markus Niemann,
Sebastian Herrmann,
Kai Hu,
Frank Breunig,
Jörg Strotmann,
Meinrad Beer,
Wolfram Machann,
Wolfram Voelker,
Georg Ertl,
Christoph Wanner,
Frank Weidemann
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.01.020
Subject(s) - cardiology , medicine , fabry disease , cardiomyopathy , muscle hypertrophy , left ventricular hypertrophy , diastole , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , fibrosis , myocardial fibrosis , heart failure , disease , blood pressure
We hypothesized that Fabry cardiomyopathy in female patients might differ substantially from that in male patients and sought to prove this hypothesis in a large cohort consisting of 104 patients with Fabry disease.
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