Medical management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetically transmitted cardiomyopathy. The underlying cause of HCM has been attributed to a number of mutations within genes encoding primarily for sarcomeric proteins, which lead to a heterogeneous phenotype of left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of other causes (eg, hypertension, aortic stenosis, or a discrete membranous subaortic stenosis). Symptoms...

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• Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Familial
• Cardiovascular Agents
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Mutation