Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: The Truth

A Case Breakdown & Explanation

What is HCM?

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a rare disease, often inherited, that causes the heart muscle to thicken, or hypertrophy. It affects both genders and many races and cultures around the world; in the general population it is seen in 1:200-1:500 individuals, largely based on the disease phenotype with imaging. HCM is treatable and patients can live a normal life, making early diagnosis a top priority.

Advances in echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) allow clinical teams to identify relatives with the HCM phenotype. On the contrary, genetic analysis can recognize the sarcomere gene carriers that do not have left ventricular hypertrophy but can still transmit the disease (Maron et al, 2022)

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