Abstract

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Abstract: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most common inherited cardiomyopathy. The identification of patients with HCM is sometimes still a challenge. Moreover, the pathophysiology of the disease is complex because of left ventricular hyper-contractile state, diastolic dysfunction, ischemia and obstruction which can be coexistent in the same patient. In this review, we discuss the current and emerging echocardiographic methodology that can help physicians in the correct diagnostic and pathophysiological assessment of patients with HCM.

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Title
Echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: usefulness of old and new techniques in the diagnosis and pathophysiological assessment
Author
Losi, Maria-Angela; Nistri, Stefano; Galderisi, Maurizio; Betocchi, Sandro; Cecchi, Franco; Olivotto, Iacopo; Agricola, Eustachio; Ballo, Piercarlo; Buralli, Simona; D'Andrea, Antonello; D'Errico, Arcangelo; Mele, Donato; Sciomer, Susanna; Mondillo, Sergio
Pages
7
Publication year
2010
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
14767120
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1022438378
Copyright
© 2010 Losi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.