title: Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an adolescent.
abstract: To our knowledge, this is one of the few reported cases of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an adolescent patient in the United States. We describe a clinical presentation of an adolescent male who presented for cardiac evaluation and was found to have an apical variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA. namccoy@email.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Nicole A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Abdy
authors.forename: Santiago O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Valdes
authors.forename: Vincent L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Sorrell
authors.forename: Scott E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Klewer
authors.forename: Brent J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Barber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male