hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the ventricles are quite small owing to abnormal growth and arrangement of the cardiac muscle fibres. This form of the disease is often hereditary and has been associated with mutations in several different genes, each of which encodes a protein necessary for the…
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In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the ventricles are quite small owing to abnormal growth and arrangement of the cardiac muscle fibres. This form of the disease is often hereditary and has been associated with mutations in several different genes, each of which encodes a protein necessary for the…
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