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An 80-year-old woman presented with incessant ventricular tachycardia as the first clinical manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and an apical aneurysm.
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This case demonstrates that sustained ventricular tachycardia can be the first manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and apical aneurysm in elderly patients, expanding the known demographic beyond middle-aged individuals.
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Consider HCM with apical aneurysm in elderly VT presentations; extends phenotype to octogenarians but remains hypothesis-generating.
Sustained ventricular tachycardia complicating left ventricular apical aneurysms has been reported previously solely in middle-aged patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mid-cavity obstruction. We report a case of an elderly female patient who presented with incessant ventricular tachycardia as the first clinical manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and apical aneurysm.
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Dilaveris et al. (2016) conducted a case report in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and apical aneurysm (n=1). Dual-chamber ICD implantation was evaluated. An 80-year-old woman presented with incessant ventricular tachycardia as the first clinical manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and an apical aneurysm.
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