CASE REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. General Cardiovascular Medicine
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy meets left ventricular hypertrabeculation: from mixed cardiomyopathy to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with hypertrabeculation
Provisionally accepted
- 1Southeast University Zhongda Hospital Department of Cardiology, Nanjing, China
- 2Southeast University Zhongda Hospital Department of Radiology, Nanjing, China
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[Abstract] This case report refers a young male patient admitted due to worsened heart failure with recurrent embolic events. He was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular systolic dysfunction in other hospitals and was treated with irregular medications including betablocker and diuretics. This time, he was diagnosed with left ventricular myocardial noncompaction combined with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by echocardiography and cardiac MR examination. Coexistence of left ventricular hypertrophy and hypertrabeculation is rare and diagnosis has been updated according to newly issued ESC guideline. Present report described the clinical features, therapy and outcome of this disease.
Keywords: left ventricular noncompaction/hypertrabeculation, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, cardiac MR, cardiomyopathy
Received: 18 Sep 2025; Accepted: 05 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Qiming Dai, 13815879581@qq.com
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