ABSTRACT
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a cardiovascular disease caused by a genetic disorder in one of at least the 10 genes that encode the proteins of the cardiac sarcomere. This disease has a unique potential for clinical presentation during any phase of life from infancy to old age and may be expressed in a wide range of phenotypic forms, from severe symmetric left ventricular hypertrophy to massive hypertrophy of asymmetric distribution.
