Francesco Negri, Giuseppe Damiano Sanna, Giulia Di Giovanna, Marco Cittar, Giulia Grilli, Antonio De Luca, Matteo Dal Ferro, Nikita Baracchini, Massimo Burelli, Alessia Paldino, Annamaria Del Franco, Silvia Pradella, Giancarlo Todiere, Iacopo Olivotto, Massimo Imazio, Gianfranco Sinagra, Marco Merlo
BACKGROUND: Assessing myocardial strain by cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (FT) has been found to be useful in patients with overt hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Little is known, however, of its role in sarcomere gene mutation carriers without overt left ventricular hypertrophy (subclinical HCM). METHODS: Thirty-eight subclinical HCM subjects and 42 healthy volunteers were enrolled in this multicenter case-control study. They underwent a comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance study...
April 2, 2024: Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging