A monthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and considered the main channel for the promotion of Brazilian cardiovascular research.
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Minna Moreira Dias Romano, Paula Ananda Inês Chacon, Fernanda Naira Zambelli Ramalho, Maria Cristina Foss, André Schmidt
Minna Moreira Dias Romano, Paula Ananda Inês Chacon, Fernanda Naira Zambelli Ramalho, Maria Cristina Foss, André Schmidt
Familial lipodystrophy is a rare genetic condition in which individuals have, besides metabolic changes and body fat deposits, a type of cardiomyopathy that has not been well studied. Many of the patients develop cardiovascular changes, the most commonly reported in the literature being the expression of a type of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This article, presented as a bibliographic review, reviews the clinical and cardiovascular imaging aspects in this scenario of cardiomyopathy in a rare metabolic disease, based on the latest scientific […]
Keywords: Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/trends; Lipodystrophy, Familial Partial/genetics; Metabolic Diseases/complications