Key result
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy progressed to dilated cardiomyopathy in a patient over a 17-year follow-up period.
Documents a rare clinical progression from hypertrophic to dilated cardiomyopathy over a 17-year period.
May signal need for extended HCM follow-up; leaves open predictors of progression and requires prospective studies.
The progression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been rarely reported. We report a patient with HCM who had been followed for 17 years and in whom DCM became evident.
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FUNAKOSHI et al. (1984) studied this question. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy progressed to dilated cardiomyopathy in a patient over a 17-year follow-up period.
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