Demonstrates that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can occur in elderly patients, describing the oldest known affected siblings.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is sometimes familial and genetically transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, is generally regarded as a disease of young or middle aged and relatively few cases have been reported in elderly patients. The present communication describes the oldest known siblings with clinically diagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 80 and 78 years of age.
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