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May 19 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Low risk patients in this study still had a 15% risk of significant ventricular arrhythmias and that's not good enough especially when you are considering younger patients. The C statistics suggest the risk score is slightly better than a coin toss. Another potential risk stratifier for an ICD is genetics. It's early yet but already there are gene markers such as laminase mutations that confer a high enough risk that an ICD might extend survival.

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