Title |
Prevalence of myocardial crypts in a large retrospective cohort study by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
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Published in |
Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/s12968-014-0066-0 |
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Authors |
Nicholas Child, Tina Muhr, Eva Sammut, Darius Dabir, Eduardo Arroyo Ucar, Tootie Bueser, Jaswinder Gill, Gerry Carr-White, Eike Nagel, Valentina O Puntmann |
Abstract |
Myocardial crypts are discrete clefts or fissures in otherwise compacted myocardium of the left ventricle (LV). Recent reports suggest a higher prevalence of crypts in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and also within small samples of genotype positive but phenotype negative relatives. The presence of a crypt has been suggested to be a predictor of gene carrier status. However, the prevalence and clinical significance of crypts in the general population is unclear. We aimed to determine the prevalence of myocardial crypts in a large cohort of subjects using clinical cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). |
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