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Cardiac Muscle and Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Post-Graduate
05/16/2009
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Term
HCM/FHC
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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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FHC is most common in
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children and young adults
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What percent die during or just after excercise
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40 percent
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FHC is the most common cause of death in
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young athletes
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What is the pathogenesis of FHC?
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You have an enlargement of the septal wall in the left ventricle-leads to SAM or obstruction. You get a derangement of the myofibrilar structure
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FHC is caused by
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defects in teh cotnractile proteins
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