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Morphological and functional abnormalities pattern in hypertrophy-free HCM mutation carriers detected with echocardiography.
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging - 1 Sept 2016
Peyrou Jérôme, Réant Patricia, Reynaud Amélie, Cornolle Claire, Dijos Marina, Rooryck-Thambo Caroline, Landelle Mathieu, Montaudon Michel, Laurent François, Roudaut Raymond, Lafitte Stéphane
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate if morphological or functional abnormalities could be detected with echocardiography in hypertrophic myocardiopathy (HCM) mutation carriers without left ventricle (LV) hypertrophy has developed. HCM is caused by extensive genes mutations found in two-third of patients. Because screening for carriership of a large population is unreasonable, identification of asymptomatic subjects is confined to the...
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