Abnormal diastolic flow demonstrated by color M mode echocardiography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular cavity obliteration

Echocardiography. 2004 Jan;21(1):49-53. doi: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.02149.x.

Abstract

We report a case of a 55-year-old woman who presented with ventricular tachycardia and myocardial infarction. Investigations revealed no disease of the epicardial coronary arteries, but a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-cavitary dynamic obstruction was made. Detailed echocardiographic examination, including pulse-wave Doppler and Color M Mode recordings revealed unusual components of diastolic dysfunction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blood Flow Velocity
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / physiopathology
  • Diastole / physiology*
  • Echocardiography, Doppler, Color
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
  • Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Ventricular Function, Left / physiology*