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Hypertrophy

New hypertrophy data have been reported by C. Degregorio and co-authors

Published in Cardiovascular Week, January 25th, 2010

According to recent research from Messina, Italy, "Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the commonest causes of sudden cardiac death in young athletes."

"Over the last years, the Italian preparticipation screening programme strongly contributed to discriminate athletes showing borderline (grey-area) left ventricular hypertrophy or fulfilling precise diagnostic criteria for HCM, thanks to the framework of testing performed yearly before competitions," wrote C. Degregorio and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "We present the case of a junior athlete in whom dramatic ECG changes suggestive for HCM became manifest during the last year...

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