Abstract
To assess myocardial fibrosis associated with muscular dystrophy, T1-mapping and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) quantification was prospectively performed using cardiovascular MR (CMR) imaging in 6 male patients with muscular dystrophy and 5 female putative carriers of Duchenne or Becker muscular dys-trophy. Five patients and all putative carriers had an elevated ECV (>29.5% for men and >35.2% for women), suggesting that ECV has a potential to detect diffuse fibrotic changes in patients and putative carriers of muscular dystrophy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 320-324 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
- Extracellular volume fraction
- Muscular dystrophy
- Putative carrier
- T-mapping