PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - B J Maron
AU  - A H Kragel
AU  - W C Roberts
TI  - Sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with normal left ventricular mass.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.63.5.308
DP  - 1990 May 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 308--310
VI  - 63
IP  - 5
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/63/5/308.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/63/5/308.full
SO  - Heart1990 May 01; 63
AB  - An active, healthy, and symptom free 16 year old boy with a family history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy died suddenly while walking home from school. Necropsy showed absence of left ventricular hypertrophy (that is, normal heart weight), though the characteristic histological abnormalities of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, such as cardiac muscle cell disorganisation and abnormal intramural coronary arteries, were present. It is likely that this patient had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and died before left ventricular hypertrophy developed.