European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 7, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(7):949-950; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn029
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Non-compaction: a distinct cardiomyopathy or non-specific morphological trait?
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Department of Cardiology
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam
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Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of The
Netherlands
Utrecht
The Netherlands
Department of Cardiology
VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of The
Netherlands
Utrecht
The Netherlands
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With great interest, we have read the article of Hoedemaekers et al.1 on linking non-compaction cardiomyopathy to hypertrophic, restrictive, and dilated cardiomyopathies. The authors extensively describe two families in which variable severities of non-compaction of the myocardium segregated with