Three patients had hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and coronary artery spasm. The clinical diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, in all patients, was confirmed by echocardiography and angiography. Significant spasm of the right coronary artery was demonstrated in each patient by selective coronary arteriography. One patient had atherosclerotic obstructive three vessel di...

background: muscle fibers overlying the intramyocardial segment of an epicardial coronary artery are termed myocardial bridge (mb). the aim of this study was to analyze the mid-term outcome of mb and to examine its possible association with angiographic findings and concomitant cardiac pathologies such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm).   methods: from a total of 3218 patients admitted for c...

The LEOPARD syndrome is a rare, autosomal dominant multisystemic disorder characterized by lentiginosis, ocular hypertelorism, abnormal genitalia, growth retardation, sensorineural deafness, and cardiac and electrocardiographic abnormalities. Although it is not cited, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is often associated with the disease. In this study, we present a nine-year-old boy with LEOPARD syn...

This case report documents the co-existence of valvar aortic stenosis and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy with systemic hypertension and calcific mitral annulus, a combination which has not hitherto been reported. It is the purpose of this paper to help assess the true incidence of the co-existence of aortic stenosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

The clinical differentiation of hypertensive heart disease from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy usually presents no problem but it is less clear whether an echocardiographic distinction can always be made and, if so, what those echocardiographic criteria of difference are. It can be inferred from recent publications that when echocardiographic criteria for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are met in hyp...

Structurally abnormal mitochondria were found in skeletal muscle cells from a woman with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myopathy of voluntary muscles associated with congenital cataracts. Moderate exercise resulted in lactic acidosis. Oxidation of pyruvate and other substrates and the production of adenosine triphosphate were normal in vitro. A younger brother of the patient had had congenital...

septal reduction therapy for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: 1 year follow-up. J Am Coll Cardiol 2000;36:852–855. 32. Van Dockum WG, Beck AM, ten Cate FJ, ten Berg JM, Bondarenko O, Gotte MJ, Twisk JW, Hofman MB, Visser CA, van Rossum AC. Early onset and progression of left ventricular remodeling after alcohol septal ablation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation 2005;111:2503–2508.

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an uncommon variant of non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with low prevalence outside East Asia. A case is reported of a non-Asian (European) 51 year old man with characteristic ECG and morphological changes of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Although the patient underwent catheterisation three years previously because of suggested coronary isc...

A 40 year old male, a known case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, was admitted for catheterization. At catheterization and angiography, septum was hypertrophied to about 5cm and diffuse coronary artery aneurysm was revealed. We found no previous report of coronary artery aneurysm in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an uncommon variant of non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with low prevalence outside East Asia. A case is reported of a non-Asian (European) 51 year old man with characteristic ECG and morphological changes of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Although the patient underwent catheterisation three years previously because of suggested coronary isc...