Prediction of mortality and serious ventricular arrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An echocardiographic study.

Doi, Yoshinori; McKenna, William J.; Chetty, S; Oakley, Celia M.; Goodwin, J. F.

doi:10.1136/hrt.44.2.150

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“…The place of echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cadiomyopathy is to provide a useful tool in the evaluation of the anatomical and functional disturbances which are present at the time of the examination and to provide a means of noninvasively assessing any changes which may occur during the clinical course. However, no particular echocardiographic feature appears to be a reliable predictor of the ultimate outcome, especially that of sudden death, and the patient's clinical state and progress would appear to provide more reliable information in this respect (Doi et al, 1980b;McKenna et al, 1981).…”

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An evaluation of two‐dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Ballester¹,

Rees²,

Rickards³

et al. 1984

Clinical Cardiology

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Summary:Various anatomical and functional features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are analyzed in view of the data provided by two-dimensional echocardiography. Measurement of septal thickness is crucial, and is best done by a combination of M-Mode and 2-D echo. Two types of systolic anterior movement of the mitral valve (SAM) are observed and are related to the degree of subvalvular gradient. The specificity of these patterns of SAM is analyzed. The functional anatomy of the mitral valve in relation to the presence and degree of mitral regurgitation shows that although the presence and type of SAM are important, there are other causes of mitral regurgitation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy unrelated to SAM. We emphasize the fact the 2-D echo cannot "diagnose" hypertrophic cardiomyopathy except when cardiac hypertrophy plus SAM involving the body of the mitral valve is seen; in the remaining cases, 2-D echo confirmshuggests the clinical diagnosis.

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An evaluation of two‐dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Ballester¹,

Rees²,

Rickards³

et al. 1984

Clinical Cardiology

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“…This condition is congenital, and older patients must have disease that progresses more slowly which is why they have survived for so long. They present with disease that is severe enough to cause obstruction, but obstruction, the abnormality that surgery can relieve, is not by itself correlated with life-threatening arrhythmias (Doi et al, 1980). In slowly progressive disease in older patients the interval between obstruction meriting surgery and gross total muscle abnormality causing life-threatening arrhythmias may well be longer than in younger patients.…”

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