Myocardial late gadolinium enhancement is associated with raised serum amino-terminal propeptide of type III collagen concentrations in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy attributable to the Asp175Asn mutation in the α tropomyosin gene: Magnetic resonance imaging study [3]

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1321-1322

  Sipola, P ^a   Peuhkurinen, K ^a   Lauerma, K ^b   Husso, M ^a   Jaaskelainen P ^a   Laakso, M ^a   Aronen, H J ^a,d   Risteli, J ^c   Kuusisto, Johanna ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Low Temperature Laboratory   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN GENE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROCOLLAGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 33748033375     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.075523     Document Type: Letter

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