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Sherif Kholeif, Marion Guerrero-Wyss, Frederik Ho, Carlos Celis-Morales
Introduction Cardiomyopathies (CM) are heart conditions that cause functional or structural abnormalities in the ventricular myocardium. They are not associated with coronary artery pathology, valvular heart disease, hypertension, or congenital heart disease.1 The disease presentation varies from asymptomatic individuals to those with abnormalities on investigation, syncope/presyncope symptoms, arrythmias, thromboembolic disease, or sudden cardiac death (SCD).1 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiomyopathy, and the leading cause of SCD from cardiomyopathy, with a prevalence of 1:500.1 Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM
May 2007 Br J Cardiol 2007;14:171-73
Ravindra L Satarasinghe, Kanagasinham Arultnithy, Neomali L Amerasena, Uditha Bulugahapitiya, Deshu V Sahayam
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