Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Case report

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common inherited disease, which occurs in 1 in 500 individuals and affects both sexes.
It presents with left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of another cardiac or systemic disease capable of producing an increase in the thickness of the left ventricle wall. The clinical manifestations of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are varied, from asymptomatic left ventricular hypertrophy or progressive heart failure to sudden cardiac death. Common symptoms include dyspnea, chest pain, palpitations, pre-syncope and syncope. Most of the time, left ventricular hypertrophy is evident during adolescence or youth. We describe the case of a male patient of 43 years, who presented a hypertensive emergency without previous history of systemic arterial hypertension. Through complementary exams, hypertrophic middle-apical myocardiopathy was diagnosed without obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract.