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Original articles

• Exercise-induced systolic dysfunction in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mutations in the cardiac troponin genes (8 October, 2007)

  K Sakata, H Ino, N Fujino, M Nagata, K Uchiyama, K Hayashi, T Konno, M Inoue, H Kato, Y Sakamoto, T Tsubokawa, M Yamagishi
• Prevalence of exercise-induced left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in symptomatic patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (21 November, 2007) Free

  J S Shah, M T T Esteban, R Thaman, R Sharma, B Mist, A Pantazis, D Ward, S K Kohli, S P Page, C Demetrescu, E Sevdalis, A Keren, D Pellerin, W J McKenna, P M Elliott
• Abnormal papillary muscle morphology is independently associated with increased left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (9 August, 2007)

  D H Kwon, R M Setser, M Thamilarasan, Z V Popovic, N G Smedira, P Schoenhagen, M J Garcia, H M Lever, M Y Desai
• Heterogeneity of regional systolic function detected by tissue Doppler imaging is linked to impaired global left ventricular relaxation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (15 January, 2008)

  T S Kato, H Izawa, K Komamura, A Noda, H Asano, K Nagata, S Hashimoto, N Oda, C Kamiya, H Kanzaki, K Hashimura, H I Ueda, T Murohara, M Kitakaze, M Yokota
• B-type natriuretic peptide predicts disease severity in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (10 December, 2007)

  J P Kaski, M T Tomé-Esteban, S Mead-Regan, A Pantazis, J Marek, J E Deanfield, W J McKenna, P M Elliott
• Episodic syncope in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: evidence for inappropriate vasodilation (24 July, 2008)

  K Prasad, L Williams, R Campbell, P M Elliott, W J McKenna, M Frenneaux
• Acute effects of alcohol septal ablation on systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (1 May, 2008)

  P Steendijk, E Meliga, M Valgimigli, F J Ten Cate, P W Serruys
• Alterations in myocardial stiffness in elite athletes assessed by a new Doppler index (12 May, 2008)

  G J King, R T Murphy, I Almuntaser, K Bennett, E Ho, A S Brown
• Homozygous mutation of MYBPC3 associated with severe infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at high frequency among the Amish

  (8 May, 2008)

  K Zahka, K Kalidas, M A Simpson, H Cross, B B Keller, C Galambos, K Gurtz, M A Patton, A H Crosby