Clinical characteristics of and long-term outcome in chinese patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Atrial fibrillation and thromboembolism in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: systematic review

“…After adjustment for duplicates, 262 unique records remained. Following exclusions (figure 1), 33 records reporting data on 7381 patients remained (see online supplementary table S1) 5––37. All studies were observational or used retrospective data collection.…”

Prognosis and prognostic factors in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Japan: results from a nationwide study

“…Several previous clinical studies on the natural history and prognosis of HCM have been based on populations of selected patients from referral centres, [12][13][14] and therefore, on the basis of different levels of care and management, various prognoses would be expected. The clinical outcome and perception of prognostic factors in HCM is profoundly affected by a bias in patient selection.…”

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Taiwan—a tertiary center experience

“…14 was the only independent predictor of major cardiovascular events associated with HCM. 15 One explanation for this gender difference in clinical features and outcome could be due to the higher prevalence of left ventricular outflow obstruction and the lower prevalence of apical HCM among the female population. During the followup period of this study, many patients died of sepsis or an unstable hemodynamic status due to sepsis.…”