Does Disopyramide Still Have a Place in the Management of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common inherited cardiac disorder associated with a left ventricular hypertrophy that cannot be explained by another cardiac or systemic disorder. One of the core pathophysiology features is left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (obstructive HCM [oHCM]), and this pathology could lead to complications, including sudden cardiac death and heart failure. Current treatment strategies for symptomatic oHCM consist of historical pharmacologic agents that are often based on nonrandomized, limited data or expert opinion. This article presents a critical appraisal of disopyramide, one of the pharmacologic options available in Canada for managing oHCM. The author concludes that robust clinical evidence supporting the use of disopyramide in treating oHCM is lacking, and that disopyramide should be reserved as a last resort for nonresponders to pharmacologic treatment and for those in whom invasive therapies are not indicated.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".