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Two cases of dilated cardiomyopathy with right ventricular wall degeneration demonstrated by late gadolinium enhanced MRI.

Kurita T, Onishi K, Motoyasu M, Kitamura T, Takamura T, Fujimoto N, Tanabe M, Dohi K, Tanigawa T, Isaka N, Ito M, Sakuma H

Department of Cardiology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu 514-8507, Japan.

Right heart failure is prominent in some patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). In this article, we present right ventricular wall degeneration and fibrosis demonstrated by late gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with DCM.

Published 10 August 2007 in Int J Cardiol.
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