Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Diagnostic tests
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography (ECG)
Cardiac MRI
Cardiac catheterization
Genetic testing (DNA sequencing)
Screening – VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Treatment
Medications:
Beta blockers
Calcium channel blockers
Diuretics
Surgical septal myectomy (done to people who remain severely symptomatic despite medical therapy)
Alcohol septal ablation (induces a controlled heart attack, in which the portion of the interventricular septum is infarcted and contracts into a scar)
Mitral clip (fastens together the mitral valve leaflets to improve the heart's blood outflow)
Implantable pacemaker or defibrillator
Cardiac transplantation

Prognosis
HCM confers an annual mortality rate of about 1%
HCM may be associated with important symptoms and premature death but more frequently with no or relatively mild disability and normal life expectancy

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