Abstract:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an important cardiac condition that can lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD) or heart failure in a subset of patients. Although HCM has been the subject of intense investigation for several decades now, our ability to predict disease onset and progression-in particular, to identify those patients at highest risk of severe clinical events-remains limited and represents one of the key challenges facing clinicians and researchers in this field. Genetic testing is a useful but bl… Show more
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