Echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: usefulness of old and new techniques in the diagnosis and pathophysiological assessment.
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.
Department of Clinical Medicine, Cardiovascular and Immunological Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy. losi@unina.it
Maria-Angela
MA
Losi
Stefano
S
Nistri
Maurizio
M
Galderisi
Sandro
S
Betocchi
Franco
F
Cecchi
Iacopo
I
Olivotto
Eustachio
E
Agricola
Piercarlo
P
Ballo
Simona
S
Buralli
Antonello
A
D'Andrea
Arcangelo
A
D'Errico
Donato
D
Mele
Susanna
S
Sciomer
Sergio
S
Mondillo
D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans