Tag John S. Douglas

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Etiology and Pathogenesis Approximately 700,000 individuals in the United States have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a monogenetic disorder that results in hypertrophy of the left ventricle (LVH) without another cardiac or systemic cause. HCM results from 1 of >1500 different mutations…