Lifelong Clinical Impact of the Presence of Sarcomere Gene Mutation in Japanese Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

CONCLUSIONS: In our HCM cohort, patients with sarcomere gene mutations had poorer lifelong outcome. Genetic information is considered important for better management of HCM.
PMID: 32830170 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Circulation Journal - August 21, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nakashima Y, Kubo T, Sugiura K, Ochi Y, Takahashi A, Baba Y, Hirota T, Yamasaki N, Kimura A, Doi YL, Kitaoka H Tags: Circ J Source Type: research