Sudden cardiac death risk in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Online publish-ahead-of-print 25 August 2009

This editorial refers to ‘Disease penetrance and risk stratification for sudden cardiac death in asymptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation carriers’^†, by M. Michels et al., on page 2593 and ‘Exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias and risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy’^‡, by J.R. Gimenoet al., on page 2599

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^†doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp306

^‡doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp327