Late gadolinium enhancement entropy as a new measure of myocardial tissue heterogeneity for prediction of adverse cardiac events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

A recent meta-analysis of five studies demonstrated that the presence of LGE was associated with a 3.4 fold increase in risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD), 1.8 fold increase in all-cause mortality, 2.9 fold increase in cardiovascular mortality and an increasing trend in HF death [ 16 ].

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