Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy first identified in 94 year-old woman

• E.A. Kovalevskaya
• N.S. Krylova
• N.G. Poteshkina
• Inna V. Samsonova

Abstract

Previously it was thought that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease of young people because of the high risk of sudden cardiac death. However, wide implementation and use of imaging techniques such as echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging followed by increasingly detection of HCM in patients of elderly and even senile age. The presence of HCM requires specific approaches to the management and treatment of this group of patients. We presented a rare clinical case of a long-liver patient, in which HCM was first diagnosed accidentally at the age of 94 during hospitalization with community-acquired pneumonia.

Keywords:hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, elderly patient, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

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