Maggie Mallabone, Dina Labib, Ahmed Abdelhaleem, Steven Dykstra, Richard B Thompson, D Ian Paterson, Sam K Thompson, Fereshteh Hasanzadeh, Yoko Mikami, Sandra Rivest, Jacqueline Flewitt, Yuanchao Feng, Matthew Macdonald, Melanie King, Michael Bristow, Louis Kolman, Andrew G Howarth, Carmen P Lydell, Robert Jh Miller, Nowell M Fine, James A White
AIMS: We sought to characterize sex-related differences in CMR-based cardiovascular phenotypes and prognosis in patients with idiopathic non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM). METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients with NICM enrolled in the Cardiovascular Imaging Registry of Calgary (CIROC) between 2015 and 2021 were identified. Z-score values for chamber volumes and function were calculated as standard deviation from mean values of 157 sex-matched healthy volunteers, ensuring reported differences were independent of known sex-dependencies...
January 17, 2024: European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging