Article
MYBPC3 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be detected by using advanced ECG in children and young adults.
Journal of electrocardiology - 1 Jan 2000
Fernlund E, Liuba P, Carlson J, Platonov P G, Schlegel T T
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: The conventional ECG is commonly used to screen for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but up to 25% of adults and possibly larger percentages of children with HCM have no distinctive abnormalities on the conventional ECG, whereas 5 to 15% of healthy young athletes do. Recently, a 5-min resting advanced 12-lead ECG test ("A-ECG score") showed superiority to pooled criteria from the strictly...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Familial
- Carrier Proteins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
