Keywords:
Genetic defects, Comparative studies, MR, Cardiac
Authors:
A. Agahi; Hobart, Tasmania/AU
Methods and Materials
A total of seven subjects (6 females and 1 male,
age 48 ± 16 years),
who were genotype positive for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in pre-clinical stage with no history of cardiac or respiratory symptoms were studied with demographics shown in Table 1.
The cardiac morphologies were measured by means of cardiac MRI,
and echocardiogram.
The morphological parameters of ventricular wall thickness at basal and apical segments of the left ventricle in anteroseptal,
and inferolateral regions,
as well as cardiac mass measurements were obtained.
MRI datasets were analysed using ventricular-time-volume curves to measure EF and EDV.
The linear regression and Bland-Altman analysis were utilized for inter-technique comparison between these two different methods.