Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common inherited cardiomyopathy, occurring in about 1 in 500 individuals. 1 The first gene mutation for this condition was identified in a large French Canadian family ...

(A) 2D echocardiography in the parasternal long-axis view demonstrates basal–septal hypertrophy (arrow) in a pattern suggestive of a sigmoid-shaped septum of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Researchers reported smaller proportions of patients with diastolic dysfunction (n = 22; 14.67%) and left ventricular hypertrophy (n = 15; 10%) on echocardiography.

Transthoracic echocardiography showed a hyperdynamic left ventricle with symmetric wall thickening (17 mm), systolic intracavitary left ventricular obliteration without an outflow-tract or ...

More information: Yingbin Wang et al, Echocardiographic Measurements in Normal Chinese Adults (EMINCA) II focusing on left ventricular and left atrial size and function by three-dimensional ...

All had evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy, with a median left ventricular mass of 438 g (range, 232 to 989) and a median left ventricular mass index of 98 grams per m 2.7 (range, 69 to 260).