Tanush Gupta, Neha Paul, Chandrasekar Palaniswamy, Nivas Balasubramaniyam, Wilbert S Aronow, Dhaval Kolte, Sahil Khera, Amar B Shah, Alan Gass
Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a phenotypic variant of nonobstructive HCM, in which hypertrophy of the myocardium predominantly involves the left ventricular apex. It is common in Japanese and other Asian populations but is rare in the United States. Apical HCM has a relatively benign prognosis in terms of cardiovascular mortality; however, morbid events such as ventricular aneurysms, apical thrombi, diastolic dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, and myocardial infarction are not uncommon. We report a case of an 18-year-old white man who presented to our hospital after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest...
January 2016: American Journal of Therapeutics