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Atorvastatin and cardiac hypertrophy and function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a pilot study.
European journal of clinical investigation - 1 Nov 2010
Nagueh Sherif F, Lombardi Raffaella, Tan Yanli, Wang Jianwen, Willerson James T, Marian Ali J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic paradigm of cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiac hypertrophy is a major determinant of risk of sudden death and morbidity in HCM. Treatment with statins reverses hypertrophy in animal models of HCM. Thus, statins may afford therapeutic benefits in HCM. METHODS: We performed a feasibility study with atorvastatin to gather the pre-requisite data for designing...
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