Synchronous cardiac arrest in monozygotic twins with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--is sudden cardiac death genetically pre-programmed?

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BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a myocardial disorder characterised by left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in the absence of another cardiac or systemic disease capable of producing the magnitude of LVH evident. HCM causes variable symptoms and is one of the leading causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young adults. While various phenotypic features of HCM among monozygotic twin pairs are not...

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