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To the Editor: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and fibromuscular dysplasia of the superior mesenteric artery that causes ischemic colitis are rare clinical entities. Their coexistence would probably be considered incidental, but they have some similarities. We describe a 33-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who was admitted to our hospital because of diffuse abdominal pain. The cardiomyopa thy had been diagnosed by echocardiography three years before, after his father, who died suddenly, was found at autopsy to have had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The patient had no cardiac symptoms, but he did have left ventricular hypertrophy on electrocardiography.

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