Midodrine hydrochloride and unexpected improvement in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy symptoms
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Management of symptoms in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
In 1957, Brock1 made the distinction between congenital subaortic stenosis characterized by a fibrous ridge and “functional subvalvar stenosis” resulting from “muscular hypertrophy,” describing 3 patients with the latter. Brock initially attributed the hypertrophy and resultant outflow obstruction to systemic hypertension, a conclusion he withdrew in a 1959 publication.2 Between these 2 publica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1875-2136
DOI: 10.1016/j.acvd.2015.11.005