Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Genetic characterization

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Genetic characterization.

Familial neurofibromatosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Two siblings from a family in which neurofibromatosis was inherited as an autosomal dominant had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and neurofibromatosis. Idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may have occurred by chance in two first degree relatives with neurofibromatosis. An alternative explantation is that these diseases are both manifestations of a common hereditary defect of neural crest tissue....

genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Ceylon.

Forty patients had a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy confirmed by right and left heart catheterization or necropsy. The families of the patients were investigated and i5 of the 40 had a positive family history. In these 15families, 79 parents and sibs were alive, and 55 werefound to have evidence of the disease. Of the 55, 40 were male and i5female. Thefamilial incidence was 37.5 per c...

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: cornering the rat.

See article by Frey et al. [8] (pages 254 –264) in this tion, useful for studying conventional reentry in patients issue. with prior infarction, is not of great utility. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been used for Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a terrible disease [1]. It some time to treat arrhythmias in patients with hyperis associated with negative hemodynamic changes l...