European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on July 3, 2006
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl130
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1 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, 920 E. 28th Street, Suite 60, Minneapolis, MN 55407, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Editorial
The dilemma of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: do patients with gradients really deserve prophylactic defibrillators?
Barry J. Maron 1 *,
Iacopo Olivotto 2,
and
Martin S. Maron 3
2 Department of Cardiology, Referral Center for Myocardial Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
3 Department of Cardiology, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Barry J. Maron, E-mail: hcm.maron{at}mhif.org
The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the Editors of the European Heart Journal or of the European Society of Cardiology.
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