Aborted Sudden Cardiac Death in a Pediatric Patient with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and a Novel MYH7 Mutation
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Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Case with Chest Pain and Family History of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Case Report
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiovascular disease, which is caused by a multitude of mutations in genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere (1). Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHCM) is an uncommon type of HCM. The sudden cardiac death is less likely to occur in the patients inflicted with AHCM (2). Herein, we presented the case of a 29-year-old man ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nihon University Medical Association
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0029-0424,1884-0779
DOI: 10.4264/numa.75.5_228