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Cardiomyopathies in children: An overview.
Hellenic journal of cardiology : HJC = Hellenike kardiologike epitheorese - 1 Jan 2000
Tsatsopoulou Adalena, Protonotarios Ioannis, Xylouri Zafeirenia, Papagiannis Ioannis, Anastasakis Aris, Germanakis Ioannis, Patrianakos Alexandros, Nyktari Evangelia, Gavras Christoforos, Papadopoulos Georgios, Meditskou Soultana, Lazarou Emilia, Miliou Antigoni, Lazaros George
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Paediatric cardiomyopathies form a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by structural and electrical abnormalities of the heart muscle, commonly due to a gene variant of the myocardial cell structure. Mostly inherited as a dominant or occasionally recessive trait, they might be part of a syndromic disorder of underlying metabolic or neuromuscular defects or combine early developing extracardiac...
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