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Genetic screening of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--a new diagnostic strategy for risk stratification?
Bratislavske lekarske listy - 1 Jan 2009
Hudecova K, Simkova I, Gardlik R, Bernadic M
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an autosomal dominant inherited disease of the heart muscle and its main characteristic is unexplained hypertrophy of the left and/or the right ventricle. HCM is the most common genetically determined cardiovascular disease and is prevalent in approximately in 1 of 500 of the population. The most serious complication of HCM is sudden cardiac death (SCD) which can be the first...
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