Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cardiac ultrasonic abnormalities in genetically affected subjects without echocardiographic evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy | Zendy

Albert Hagège | Zendy

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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cardiac ultrasonic abnormalities in genetically affected subjects without echocardiographic evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy

Author(s) -

Albert Hagège

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1053/euhj.1997.0735

Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , cardiology , left ventricular hypertrophy , muscle hypertrophy , cardiomyopathy , myocardial hypertrophy , normality , heart failure , blood pressure , psychiatry

It is not known whether the apparent normality of echocardiographic examination results, in subjects bearing a mutation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy but without ultrasonic left ventricular hypertrophy, is due to incomplete phenotypic expression, or inaccurate echocardiographic criteria. The aim of this study was to search for echocardiographic abnormalities in these patients.

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