Association of Late Gadolinium Enhancement and Degree of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Assessed on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging With Ventricular Tachycardia in Children With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

• Published in: The American journal of cardiology Vol. 117; no. 8; pp. 1342 - 1348
• Main Authors: Spinner, Joseph A., MD, Noel, Cory V., MD, Denfield, Susan W., MD, Krishnamurthy, Rajesh, MD, Jeewa, Aamir, MD, Dreyer, William J., MD, Maskatia, Shiraz A., MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.04.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - complications; Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - diagnosis; Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - physiopathology; Cardiovascular; Child; Child, Preschool; Contrast Media - pharmacology; Disease Progression; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gadolinium DTPA - pharmacology; Heart attacks; Humans; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular - complications; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular - diagnosis; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular - physiopathology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine - methods; Male; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Stroke Volume - physiology; Studies; Tachycardia, Ventricular - diagnosis; Tachycardia, Ventricular - etiology; Tachycardia, Ventricular - physiopathology; Netherlands

There are limited data on the clinical significance of left ventricular (LV) mass and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC). We reviewed cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) studies of children with HC to investigate the associations between the extent an...