Fa‐Po Chung

Beyond the “Benign” Label: Toward Phenotype-Specific Risk Stratification in Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was first described nearly 5 decades ago by Yamaguchi and colleagues 1) in a Japanese cohort, characterized by giant T-wave inversion and the now-iconic "ace-of-spades" left ventricular morphology, and reported at the time with strikingly...