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How Low the Bar?

Rick A. Nishimura, MD; Steve R. Ommen, MD

JAMA. 2007;298:452-454.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common disorder (occurring in approximately 1 in 500 adults in the general population)^1-2 and has the widely recognized clinical findings of massive myocardial hypertrophy and dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Once thought to be a disease of unknown etiology, HCM is now recognized as a genetic disorder often caused by a mutation in at least 1 of 12 genes that encode the proteins of the cardiac sarcomere.³

Knowledge about HCM has changed dramatically over the past few decades, by virtue of increased recognition of this disorder due to heightened awareness of the disease and wider use of noninvasive imaging modalities. Initially, HCM was thought to be a deadly disease of the young, because patients presented with severely limiting symptoms (dyspnea, angina, and syncope) or even sudden cardiac death.⁴ However, patients with HCM can present with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.

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