title: [Specificity of systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve in the echocardiographic diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (author's transl)].
abstract: In order to determine the prevalence of sistolic anterior motion (SAM) of the mitral valve, we evaluated the echocardiographic records of 229 consecutive patients with a variety of cardiovascular conditions. SAM was present in all the 9 patients of this series with hypetrophic cardiomyopathy and in additional 4 patients with other conditions. Their diagnosis were: arterio-venous fistula of the forearm, tetralogy of Fallot, Prinzmetal angina and idiopatic hypercynetic cardio-circulatory state. Thus SAM without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not a rare event in patients undergoing echocardiography. The wide variability of conditions associated with SAM suggests that it represents a functional and aspecific abnormality and does not involve peculiar anatomic factors.
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000503:physiopathology; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000502:physiology*; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D013599:Systole
vernacular_title: Specificità del movimento sistolico anteriore della mitrale nella diagnosi ecocardiografica delle cardiomiopatie ipertrofiche.