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Development of left ventricular hypertrophy in adults in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by cardiac myosin-binding protein C gene mutations.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 1 Aug 2001
Maron B J, Niimura H, Casey S A, Soper M K, Wright G B, Seidman J G, Seidman C E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether the development of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) can be demonstrated during adulthood in genetically affected relatives with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a heterogeneous cardiac disease caused by mutations in nine genes that encode proteins of the sarcomere. Mutations in cardiac myosin-binding protein C (MyBPC) gene...
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