Screening for pre-clinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by tissue Doppler imaging.

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BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder. On a routine clinical basis, genetic analysis is both time consuming and impractical at present. Thus, use of tissue Doppler imaging as a surrogate for genetic screening is an attractive option. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fifty-five first-degree relatives of 15 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were screened. Of them, two were...

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