Rare Disease: Cardiac Risk Assessment With MRI in Patients With Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1

Rare Disease: Cardiac Risk Assessment With MRI in Patients With Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1

Introduction: To evaluate myocardial strain and extracellular volume in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) patients as potential imaging biomarkers of subclinical cardiac pathology.Materials and methods: We retrospectively analyzed 9 DM1 patients without apparent cardiac disease who had undergone cardi...

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Main Authors: Marco Alì, Caterina Beatrice Monti, Luca Melazzini, Rosanna Cardani, Barbara Fossati, Michele Cavalli, Kelvin Chow, Francesco Secchi, Giovanni Meola, Francesco Sardanelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
myotonic dystrophy
cardiac magnetic resonance
myocardial strain imaging
extracellular volume
cardiac fibrosis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00192/full

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