An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an uncommon variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with hypertrophy mainly affecting the apex of the left ventricle. We hereby describe a case of an octogenarian female patient who was randomly diagnosed with AHCM due to other comorbidities.

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Autores principales: Sanidas, Elias, Bonou, Maria, Anastasiadis, Georgios, Tzanis, Georgios, Barbetseas, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26779351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/980971
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author Sanidas, Elias
Bonou, Maria
Anastasiadis, Georgios
Tzanis, Georgios
Barbetseas, John
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description Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an uncommon variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with hypertrophy mainly affecting the apex of the left ventricle. We hereby describe a case of an octogenarian female patient who was randomly diagnosed with AHCM due to other comorbidities.
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spelling pubmed-46866692016-01-17 An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy Sanidas, Elias Bonou, Maria Anastasiadis, Georgios Tzanis, Georgios Barbetseas, John Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an uncommon variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with hypertrophy mainly affecting the apex of the left ventricle. We hereby describe a case of an octogenarian female patient who was randomly diagnosed with AHCM due to other comorbidities. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4686669/ /pubmed/26779351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/980971 Text en Copyright © 2015 Elias Sanidas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sanidas, Elias
Bonou, Maria
Anastasiadis, Georgios
Tzanis, Georgios
Barbetseas, John
An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title_full An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title_fullStr An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title_full_unstemmed An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title_short An Atypical Case of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Absence of Giant T Waves in spite of Extreme Apical Wall Hypertrophy
title_sort atypical case of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: absence of giant t waves in spite of extreme apical wall hypertrophy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26779351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/980971
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