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Sarcomere mutations in cardiogenesis and ventricular noncompaction.
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Jan 2009
McNally Elizabeth, Dellefave Lisa
Abstract excerpt
Ventricular noncompaction is a form of cardiomyopathy where increased trabeculation is present frequently affecting the left ventricle and resembling an embryonic state of heart development. Clinically, left ventricular noncompaction may manifest as congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and/or thromboembolic events. There are multiple genes linked to noncompaction, but recently, sarcomere gene mutations were...
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