Electrocardiography Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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• 作者：MATTHEW J. CAMPBELL ; XUEFU ZHOU ; CHIA HAN ; HEDAYAT ABRISHAMI ; GREGORY WEBSTER ; CHRISTINA Y. MIYAKE ; TIMOTHY K. KNILANS and RICHARD J. CZOSEK
• 刊名：Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：39
• 期：9
• 页码：944-950
• 全文大小：312K
• ISSN：1540-8159

文摘

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes. However, preparticipation electrocardiogram (ECG) screening has been criticized for failing to meet cost-effectiveness thresholds, in part because of high false-positive rates. We sought to evaluate whether a highly automated software algorithm could be used for a high throughput, population-based screening program and address several of the limitations seen with population-based screening