Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a young hypertensive.

In 1957, Brock 1 described 3 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy of which one of these patients had previously been hypertensive. Brock postulated that obstruction of the left ventricle outflow tract was caused by concentric hypertrophy of the subvalvular region of the left ventricle, which in turn resulted in sustained systemic hypertension. Later in 1970, Hambly 2 reported 8 cases of hypertension coexisting with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We report a similar patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presenting as a young hypertensive.