Echocardiography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy diagnosis, prognosis, and role in management
Population
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports multiplane echocardiography to minimize HCM wall thickness errors in practice; leaves open standardization across centers and modalities.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
I
Intervention
Echocardiography
Echocardiography is essential for the accurate diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, requiring careful technique to measure left ventricular wall thickness.
Cite This Study
Williams et al. (2009) studied this question.