Left ventricular volumes and function affected by myocardial fibrosis in patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies: a preliminary magnetic resonance study

Kardiol Pol. 2020 Apr 24;78(4):331-334. doi: 10.33963/KP.15223. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

Authors

Joanna Kwiatkowska¹, Jarosław Meyer-Szary¹, Magdalena Bazgier¹, Jadwiga Fijałkowska², Jolanta Wierzba³, Anna Glińska², Karolina Dorniak⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
² 2nd Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
³ Department of Paediatrics, Haematology and Oncology, Department of General Nursery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
⁴ Department of Noninvasive Cardiac Diagnostics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland. karolina.dorniak@gumed.edu.pl

PMID: 32125292
DOI: 10.33963/KP.15223

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MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathies*
Fibrosis
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne* / complications
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne* / diagnostic imaging