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. 2015 Apr 23;2015(4):276-7.
doi: 10.1093/omcr/omv029. eCollection 2015 Apr.

An unexpected cause of hypertrophic myocardium

George Lathra Mathew  1 , Vassilios S Vassiliou  2 , Tamir Malley  1 , Karen Symmonds  1 , Francisco Alpendurada  1
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An unexpected cause of hypertrophic myocardium

George Lathra Mathew et al. Oxf Med Case Reports. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Four-chamber transthoracic echocardiography demonstrating moderate myocardial hypertrophy and mildly dilated atria.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
(a) A hypertrophic myocardium with mildly dilated atria. (b) Diffuse enhancement associated with a relatively dark blood pool (difficult ‘nulling’) of the myocardium, typical of cardiac amyloid.
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
T1 map following motion correction and co-registration to enable calculation of native T1 values. In this case, the septal value was elevated at 1148 ms suggestive of light chain amyloid deposition (AL amyloid) and demonstrating how new techniques can be utilized to aid the diagnosis of rare pathology.
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