LIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY OF APICAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

Sara Lucier, Tracie Keranen, Dan Miller, Jacob Herrera, Paul M. Zack

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(This article may be cited as Lucier Sara, Keranen Tracie, Miller Dan,  Herrera Jacob, Zack Paul M. Live Three-Dimensional Echocardiography of Apical  Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. E-Journal of cardiology 2011; 1(1):14-19.)

 

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHC) is a subtype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that was first described in 1976. It is clinically important to distinguish AHC from other variants of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, as AHC carries a more benign long term prognosis. Conventional two-dimensional echocardiography is typically non-diagnostic for AHC secondary to foreshortening of the left ventricular apical segment. We report a case of a patient with AHC and non-diagnostic two-dimensional echocardiography in whom diagnostic imaging of AHC was achieved with the use of live three-dimensional trans-thoracic echocardiography.


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