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Management of an asymptomatic patient with the apical variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Healthcare professionals are faced with challenging decisions regarding patient evaluation and management on a daily basis. Once a diagnosis is made, additional challenges include how to proceed with the management.… Click to show full abstract

Healthcare professionals are faced with challenging decisions regarding patient evaluation and management on a daily basis. Once a diagnosis is made, additional challenges include how to proceed with the management. Here, we present an eighty‐two‐year‐old female who was incidentally diagnosed with the apical variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy on a transthoracic echocardiogram. She was found to have newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation, but was otherwise asymptomatic from a cardiomyopathy standpoint. No specific guidelines exist for this patient population. Therefore, how does one proceed with the management of an asymptomatic patient with the apical variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

Keywords: management asymptomatic; variant hypertrophic; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; management; apical variant

Journal Title: Echocardiography
Year Published: 2017

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