Young Becker Muscular Dystrophy Patients Demonstrate Fibrosis Associated With Abnormal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Jul;12(7):e008919. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.008919. Epub 2019 Jul 1.
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Keywords: adolescent; cardiomyopathies; gadolinium; magnetic resonance imaging; muscular dystrophy.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Fibrosis
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Male
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / complications
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / diagnostic imaging*
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / pathology*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / complications
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / pathology*
  • Young Adult