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What is the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis, prognosis, management, and follow-up of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
What is the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis, prognosis, management, and follow-up of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
This review highlights the essential role of established and emerging echocardiographic techniques in the comprehensive assessment and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Echocardiography informs HCM decisions now; leaves open optimal integration of emerging techniques in prospective trials.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic cardiovascular disease and appears in all ethnic groups. HCM is diagnosed on the basis of left ventricular hypertrophy. Echocardiography is a key technique in the diagnosis of HCM, the prognosis of patients with HCM, the management strategy for HCM, and the follow-up of patients with HCM. This review briefly describes and discusses the practical use of established echocardiography techniques and the current and emerging echocardiographic methods that can help physicians in the correct diagnostic and pathophysiological assessment of patients with HCM.
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