Asymmetric left ventricular hypertrophy associated with morbid obesity mimicking familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Author:
Raymond Ching-Chiew WONG
1
;
Kong Bing TAN
Author Information
1. Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, 1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 9, Singapore 119228. raymond_cc_wong@nuhs.edu.sg.
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH:
Adult;
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Familial;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Echocardiography;
Humans;
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular;
complications;
diagnosis;
Male;
Obesity, Morbid;
complications
- From:Singapore medical journal
2014;55(12):e201-4
- CountrySingapore
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Asymmetric septal hypertrophy with systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve is frequently a phenotypic, but not pathognomonic, expression of genetic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with or without obstruction. It can, however, be associated nonspecifically with other forms of increased left ventricular (LV) afterload. We herein report the case of a young man with obesity cardiomyopathy and heart failure who presented with asymmetric septal hypertrophy and marked LV hypertrophy, and endomyocardial biopsy ruled out genetic HCM.
