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European Heart Journal 2003 24(6):496-498; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00815-1
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Editorial

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—the clinical challenge of managing a hereditary heart condition

Jens Mogensen*, Ajay Bahl and William J McKenna

Department of Cardiological Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, SW17 0RE, London, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44-20-8725-2002; fax: +44-20-8682-0944
E-mail address: jmogense@sghms.ac.uk

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See doi:10.1016/S1095-668X(00)00522-5for the article to which this editorial refers.

Within this issue of the European Heart Journal van Lange and coworkers investigated current genetic knowledge and practice of Dutch cardiologists regarding counselling and DNA-testing of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The study revealed that Dutch cardiologists regarded their genetic knowledge as insufficient and demonstrated that a substantial proportion of HCM patients did not receive adequate information about the hereditary nature of their disease. In addition clinical investigations of relatives at risk of having inherited the disease and genetic analysis to identify disease-causing mutations in affected families were seldom initiated. The authors concluded that the current genetic care for HCM patients is poor and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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