Key result
Pregnancy in two maternally inherited HCM cases is linked to rapid heart failure and DCM.
Case Report (n=2)
Pregnancy may trigger rapid progression to heart failure and a dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype in patients with maternally inherited familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Pregnancy may precipitate rapid heart failure in maternally inherited familial HCM; hypothesis-generating case observations requiring prospective confirmation.
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Kim et al. (2004) conducted a case report in Maternally inherited familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=2). Pregnancy was evaluated on Heart failure and cardiac chamber dilatation. Pregnancy in two cases of maternally inherited familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was associated with rapid deterioration to heart failure and cardiac chamber dilatation resembling dilated cardiomyopathy.
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