Abstract
It has been suggested that the adynamic or hypokinetic appearance of the ventricular septum is a unique echocardiographic feature of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC). To determine how characteristic of HC the adynamic septum is, 70 patients with this disease, and 31 with other cardiac diseases that produce left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and pressure overload (aortic valvular stenosis or systemic hypertension), and 25 subjects with normal hearts were studied by echocardiography. On M-mode echocardiography, 53 of 70 patients (75%) with HC had an abnormally low value for percent systolic thickening of the septum associated with either reduced or normal septal excursion; however, 17 patients (25%) showed normal septal dynamics. Twenty of 31 patients (64%) with other cardiac diseases that produce pressure overload showed normal septal thickening and excursion, while 11 (36%) had reduced systolic thickening associated with either diminished or normal excursion. Greatly reduced values for percent systolic thickening of the septum were present both in patients with HC (13 +/- 1%) and in patients with other cardiac diseases (21 +/- 2%). However, differences in systolic septal thickening between the 2 groups were largely a manifestati...Continue Reading
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