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Isolated left ventricular non-compaction, not hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Sir,
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common cardiac disease (1:500 in the general population), which both general physicians and cardiologists encounter frequently in clinical practice. However, there are conditions that may mimic HCM (Table 1). We describe a patient with an initial diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Further investigations several years later revealed an alternative
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