Publications by authors named "Konstantinos Somarakis"
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- A 56-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy experienced jaundice, eight years after having a dual-chamber ICD implanted, but showed no signs of heart failure.
- The diagnosis revealed congestive hepatopathy due to severe tricuspid regurgitation caused by the improperly positioned right ventricular lead from the ICD.
- Treatment involved replacing the tricuspid valve and removing the ICD, leading to a successful recovery, highlighting the need to consider heart issues as a cause of liver dysfunction in similar patients.
: We aimed to study the long-term association of LV mass index (LV) and myocardial fibrosis with ventricular arrhythmia (VA) in a population of patients with confirmed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). : We retrospectively analyzed the data in consecutive HCM patients confirmed on CMR referred to an HCM clinic between January 2008 and October 2018. Patients were followed up yearly following diagnosis.
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