The dilemma of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: do patients with gradients really deserve prophylactic defibrillators?

Eur Heart J. 2006 Aug;27(16):1895-7. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl130. Epub 2006 Jul 3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications*
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology*
  • Defibrillators, Implantable*
  • Humans
  • Risk Factors
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*