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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presents with a complex clinical spectrum and heterogeneous patterns, making diagnosis and management challenging for cardiologists.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presents with a heterogeneous clinical spectrum, making diagnosis and management challenging but essential for preventing major cardiovascular complications and sudden cardiac death.
Hypothesis-generating for phenotype-specific HCM management; prospective studies needed before practice change.
The clinical spectrum of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is complex and includes a variety of phenotypes, which leads to different types of manifestations.Although most of the patients are asymptomatic, a significant proportion of them will develop symptoms or risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD).Therefore, the objectives of HCM diagnosis and management are to relieve the patients' symptoms (chest pain, heart failure, syncope, palpitations, etc.), prevent disease progression and major cardiovascular complications and SCD.The heterogeneity of HCM patterns, their symptoms and assessment is a challenge for the cardiologist.
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A 2015 study conducted a review in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presents with a complex clinical spectrum and heterogeneous patterns, making diagnosis and management challenging for cardiologists.
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