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Objective: To report comprehensively the clinical features and the management strategies of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in infancy.

Methods: Comprehensively retrieved studies published from 2000 to present constituted the study materials for this article.

ABSTRACT

The Editor,

Sir,

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic and familial cardiovascular disease which can cause severe arrhythmia and heart failure. With irregular hypertrophy and disorganized arrangement of cardiomyocytes on histological picture, the normal myocardium macrostructure appears in whole or part as ventricular wall thickness, especially ventricular septal thickness (1).