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The New European Society of Cardiology guidelines on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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- Published on: 15 March 2016
- Published on: 15 March 2016Increasing professional and societal awareness of the uncertainty underpinning hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)Show More
I read with great interest the above guidelines published for this rare inherited heart disorder. Over the past few years, much work has gone into elucidating possible risk factors and markers which can help predict sudden cardiac death in such patients. Namely, we have already established that myocardial fibrosis, age and certain mutations in cardiac genes are markers indicative of a higher risk of sudden cardiac death for t...
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