✦ LIBER ✦
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and HCM gene carriers have attenuated myocardial oxygenation response to vasodilator stress - a potential mechanism for sudden cardiac death
✍ Scribed by Sairia Dass; Theodoros Karamitsos; Joseph Suttie; Emily Sever; Michael Jerosch-Herold; Hugh Watkins; Stefan Neubauer
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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✦ Synopsis
Tissue oxygenation response to adenosine stress in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is blunted compared to athletes and normals. Myocardial tissue hypoxia during stress in HCM may potentially contribute to the increased exercise related deaths in this condition.