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Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Lentiginosis
Author(s) -
Hopkins Barry E.,
Taylor Roger R.,
Robinson James S.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1975.tb03272.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , heart disease , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , cardiomyopathy , cardiology , genetics , heart failure , gene , biology
Summary: Members of three generations of a family studied, manifest profuse lentiginosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The autosomal dominant inheritance of this syndrome is established. Lentiginosis should alert the physician to possible underlying heart disease.