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. 1983 Dec;50(6):530–533. doi: 10.1136/hrt.50.6.530

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a common disease with a good prognosis. Five year experience of a district general hospital.

L M Shapiro, A Zezulka
PMCID: PMC481455  PMID: 6686058

Abstract

The manifestations and workload in a district general hospital cardiac unit of 39 unselected cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy over a five year period are reported. The "typical" form with asymmetrical septal hypertrophy and a gradient was found in only one third of patients, serious ventricular arrhythmias were probably no more common than in the general population, and no deaths occurred during a relatively short follow up (mean 3.1 years). It is concluded that although hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occupies a not insignificant proportion of cardiac workload, unselected cases presenting to a district general hospital represent a relatively mild disease without a grave prognosis.

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