title: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a common disease with a good prognosis. Five year experience of a district general hospital.
abstract: The manifestations and workload in a district general hospital cardiac unit of 39 unselected cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy over a five year period are reported. The "typical" form with asymmetrical septal hypertrophy and a gradient was found in only one third of patients, serious ventricular arrhythmias were probably no more common than in the general population, and no deaths occurred during a relatively short follow up (mean 3.1 years). It is concluded that although hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occupies a not insignificant proportion of cardiac workload, unselected cases presenting to a district general hospital represent a relatively mild disease without a grave prognosis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis