Left Ventricular Mechanical Dispersion for the Better Risk Stratification of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Is It Possible?

Letter to editor: sudden cardiac death (scd) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) is a probable catastrophe. to predict scd in hcm, the european society of cardiology introduced a risk scoring system that combined several factors such as age, the left atrial size, the maximal thickness of the left ventricular (lv) wall, the lv outflow tract gradient, a history of syncope, a family history of scd, and the presence of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in electrocardiography holter monitoring.