Article
The Influence of Genotype on the Phenotype, Clinical Course, and Risk of Adverse Events in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
Heart failure clinics - 1 Jan 2022
Girolami Francesca, Passantino Silvia, Verrillo Federica, Palinkas Eszter Dalma, Limongelli Giuseppe, Favilli Silvia, Olivotto Iacopo
Abstract excerpt
Genetic testing in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can modify clinical management and lifestyle counseling. However, predicting long-term outcome and response to management in individual patients remains challenging, because of the peculiar genetic heterogeneity of the disease in the pediatric age range. Children with HCM secondary to an inborn error of metabolism or malformation syndromes tend to...
Topics
- Cardiac Myosins
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Child
- Genotype
- Humans
- Myosin Heavy Chains
- Phenotype
