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Accuracy of surface electrocardiograms for differentiating children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from normal
A I Dipchand1, B W McCrindle, R M Gow
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada. anne.dipchand@sickkids.on.ca
The American Journal of Cardiology
|March 12, 1999
Abstract:
Most patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have abnormal electrocardiograms. In this study of 37 matched pairs in the pediatric age group, the 12-lead electrocardiogram did not differentiate between affected and normal children reliably enough to allow it to be used as a screening test in the general population.