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[Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occurring in the family. Rare coexistence with oligophrenia. Clinical examinations, cytogenetic and HLA system].
Kardiologia polska - 1 Aug 1993
Krzymińska E, Szczerkowska Z, Linom J, Swiatecka G, Pawlak T, Maniszewska B, Luberda Z
Abstract excerpt
Familial hereditary ventricular hypertrophy (HCM) is classified as a genetically determined disease (autosomal dominant trait) characterized by generalized ventricular hypertrophy, specific heart sounds and echocardiography images, characteristic ECG changes. Sudden death occurs in some cases. Clinical data and laboratory findings in a family of twelve, in which three brothers (aged 17, 21 and 25) displayed...
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