Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a heterogeneous myocardial disorder with a broad spectrum of clinical presentation and morphologic features. Recent reports indicated that some patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy. Comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of the restrictive phenotype in HCM patients has not been fully evaluated. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...

INTRODUCTION "Takotsubo cardiomyopathy" is characterized by transient LV dysfunction and mimicking acute myocardial infarction. CASE PRESENTATION We reported a case with atypical presentation of "takotsubo cardiomyopathy" without ST segment elevation, but with severe transient left ventricular dysfunction. CONCLUSION Diagnosis of "takotsubo cardiomyopathy" should be based on typical left ve...

A woman with Noonan syndrome had clinical and haemodynamic features of restrictive cardiomyopathy. There was no ventricular hypertrophy on echocardiography but myocardial biopsies showed myocyte hypertrophy without pathological disarray. This case illustrates the overlap of the cardiac phenotypes of Noonan syndrome, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) or stress-induced cardiomyopathy is also popularly referred to as "broken heart syndrome" or "apical ballooning syndrome". [...].

BACKGROUND Epicardial ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation is associated with risks of coronary artery (CA) and phrenic nerve (PN) injury. We investigated the role of multidetector computed tomography in visualizing CA and PN during VT ablation. METHODS AND RESULTS Ninety-five consecutive patients (86 men; age, 57 ± 15) with VT underwent cardiac multidetector computed tomography. The PN dete...

UNLABELLED We assessed Takotsubo (ampulla) cardiomyopathy compared with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) using two-dimensional echocardiography and 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial SPECT. METHODS We examined 10 patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and 16 with ACS at the time of emergency admission (acute phase), at three to nine days after the attack (subacute phase) and at one month after the att...

BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a familial myocardial condition caused by sarcomere protein mutations, is usually recognized by early adulthood. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy of the elderly has similar clinical features but, notably, a later age of onset and noncontributory family history. Causes of elderly-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Eighteen wome...

Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is an uncommon condition constituting 1% -2% of the cases with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) diagnosis. We interestingly report two patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in association with significant pulmonary artery hypertension without any other underlying reason for pulmonary hypertension. The patients were assessed by echocardiography, car...

Methods We enrolled 11 non-cardiomyopathic and 93 cardiomyopathic patients with following diagnoses: hypertensive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=22), dilated cardiomyopathy (n=28), sarcoidosis (n=13), old myocardial infarction (n=7), and other form of cardiomyopathy (n=23). Using 3-Teslar cardiac MRI (SignaHDxt, GE medical), T2* signal intensity in the cardiac ventricular septum and hepatic ...

Hypocalcemia is a rare cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. Hypocalcemia induced cardiomyopathy is usually reversible when calcium level returns to normal range. We experienced a case of 57-year-old woman who had suffered from hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy and its consequence of dilated cardiomyopathy. After supplementation of calcium and vitamin D, symptoms of heart failure and LV functio...