After 60 Years Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is Finally Recognized as a Contemporary Treatable Disease With Low Mortality and Morbidity, But is This Paradigm Under-Recognized in the Literature?

The evolving nature of a cardiovascular disease is defined for the clinician and patient communities by its portrayal in the peer-reviewed medical-scientific literature. This is a particularly relevant principle for those less common chronic diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy for which individual practitioners with limited direct clinical experience acquire their understanding largely from the published observations of other more experienced clinicians and authors.