Elena Biagini, Chiara Pazzi, Iacopo Olivotto, Beatrice Musumeci, Giuseppe Limongelli, Giuseppe Boriani, Giuseppe Pacileo, Vittoria Mastromarino, Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Massimiliano Lorenzini, Francesco Lai, Alessandra Berardini, Francesca Mingardi, Stefania Rosmini, Elvira Resciniti, Claudia Borghi, Camillo Autore, Franco Cecchi, Claudio Rapezzi
The objective of this study was to investigate the prognostic significance of 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns in a large multicenter cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; 1,004 consecutive patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a recorded standard ECG (64% men, mean age 50 ± 16 years) were evaluated at 4 Italian centers. The study end points were sudden cardiac death (SCD) or surrogates, including appropriate implanted cardiac defibrillator discharge and resuscitated cardiac arrest and major cardiovascular events (including SCD or surrogates and death due to heart failure, cardioembolic stroke, or heart transplantation)...
August 1, 2016: American Journal of Cardiology