Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: pathological features and molecular pathogenesis.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous genetic cardiac disorder with various genotypic and phenotypic manifestations, and is often a diagnostic challenge. Although more than forty years have passed since the first description of HCM, a variety of mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins, that cause the disease have been defined by laboratory and clinical studies over the past few years. The...

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