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Echocardiography, including conventional and emerging techniques, plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis, pathophysiological assessment, and risk stratification of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
This review summarizes current and emerging echocardiographic techniques for the diagnosis and pathophysiological assessment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
May reinforce echo's central role in HCM care; leaves open prospective validation of emerging techniques.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most common inherited cardiomyopathy. The identification of patients with HCM is sometimes still a challenge. Moreover, the pathophysiology of the disease is complex because of left ventricular hyper-contractile state, diastolic dysfunction, ischemia and obstruction which can be coexistent in the same patient. In this review, we discuss the current and emerging echocardiographic methodology that can help physicians in the correct diagnostic and pathophysiological assessment of patients with HCM.
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Losi et al. (2010) conducted a review in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography, including conventional and emerging techniques, plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis, pathophysiological assessment, and risk stratification of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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