Improvement in sudden cardiac death risk prediction by the enhanced American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association strategy in Chinese patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The lack of validated and effective sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk prediction methods is the biggest barrier to perform the lifesaving treatment with a prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in Chinese patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Source: Heart Rhythm - April 16, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jie Liu, Guixin Wu, Ce Zhang, Jieyun Ruan, Dong Wang, Mo Zhang, Limei Wang, Yaoyao Yang, Xinrong Li, Yilu Wang, Rutai Hui, Yubao Zou, Lianming Kang, Jizheng Wang, Lei Song Source Type: research