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Proposal for contemporary screening strategies in families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 7 Dec 2004
Maron Barry J, Seidman J G, Seidman Christine E
Abstract excerpt
Screening families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) presents a common clinical problem to practicing cardiologists, internists, and pediatricians. The traditional recommended strategy for screening relatives in most HCM families calls for such evaluations with echocardiography (and electrocardiogram [ECG]) on a 12- to 18-month basis, usually beginning at about age 12 years. If such tests show no evidence of...
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