Tag: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance enables accurate and reproducible assessment of left ventricular (LV) dimensionsand function, free of geometric assumptions and limitations related to an inadequate acoustic window. In patientswith hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), LV mass (LVM) and maximal LV wall thickness (MLVWT) have prognostic significance...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become an indispensible imaging technique for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases. Technical advances in the past have rendered CMR unique in the evaluation of cardiovascular anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology due to its unique ability to produce high resolution tomographic images of the human heart and vessels in any arbitrary orientation, with soft tissue contrast that is superior to competing imaging modalities without the use of ionizing radiation...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease. The role of phospholamban (PLN) gene mutations is the development of HCM has not been established. To screen for PLN gene mutations in a group of HCM patients from the southern Poland...

A 70 year-old woman presented with an abnormal electrocardiogram which had been detected during pre-operative assessment for cholecystectomy. She had no significant past medical history, and blood pressure was normal...

We present a case of 68 year-old woman with previously diagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy complaining of progressive dyspnoe after the acute coronary syndrome. The echocardiogram confirmed hypertrophic hypertrophy and revealed an aneurysm in the apical portion of the left ventricle (LV). The Doppler-echocardiography showed two intra-LV gradients: midventricular and subaortic, with systolic anterior motion of anterior mitral leaflet...

A 74 year-old patient was admitted to Invasive Cardiology Department. Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction was suspected.Patient has typical chest pain after strong stress. The normal coronary artery was found in coroangiography. The apicalballooning and almost closure in ½ of left ventricle cavity were found in ventriculography. The echocardiography shownasymmetric hypertrophy of heart walls and left ventricle outflow obstruction. The cardiac magnetic resonance was performedbecause of heart tumour was suspected.

We described a case of a 59-year-old woman without clinical significance. Abnormal resting electrocardiogram (ECG) was the cause of the cardiology consultation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is generally associated with deterioration of the clinical status, functional capacity, and quality of life. It is also an independent risk factor for stroke and death.