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Research Article: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance insights into anomalies of the mitral valve apparatus in Fabry cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Date Published: 2024-09-30

Abstract:
Background and aims: Despite different etiopathogenesis, Fabry Disease cardiomyopathy (FDc) and sarcomeric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) share a similar hypertrophic phenotype, including anomalies of the mitral valve apparatus (AMVA). Some of these anomalies have also been described in the pre-hypertrophic stage of both diseases. This cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) study aimed to: (i) compare AMVA between FDc and HCM with a similar degree of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), to add new insights into differential diagnosis; (ii) assess whether AMVA represent an early and progressive alteration in FDc; (iii) propose simple and potentially reproducible measurements of AMVA.

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