Sudden unexpected death due to familial hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
โ Scribed by Ravindra Fernando
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 834 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0379-0738
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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.
## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Nonsyndromic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary cardiac disease transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. Multiple chromosomal loci have been found to be involved in the etiology of this defect. LEOPARD syndrome is a genetic condition characteristically asso