Syncope in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
A patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, syncope, and frequent ventricular tachycardia was monitored during a syncopal episode. An unrecordable blood pressure and the loss of a left ventricular outflow tract murmur without evidence of arrhythmia suggested a primary haemodynamic mechanism such as reduction in left ventricular volume.
D001794:Blood Pressure; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology