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Echo Res Pract. 2021 Jun 08;8(1):G61-G86. doi: 10.1530/ERP-20-0042.

Transthoracic echocardiography of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in adults: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography.

Echo research and practice

Lauren Turvey, Daniel X Augustine, Shaun Robinson, David Oxborough, Martin Stout, Nicola Smith, Allan Harkness, Lynne Williams, Richard P Steeds, William Bradlow

Affiliations

  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
  2. Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
  3. Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
  4. Department of Cardiology, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK.
  5. Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.
  6. North West Heart Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
  7. Department of Cardiology, Colchester Hospital NHS Trust, Colchester, UK.
  8. Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, UK.

PMID: 33667195 PMCID: PMC8243716 DOI: 10.1530/ERP-20-0042

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is common, inherited and characterised by unexplained thickening of the myocardium. The British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) has recently published a minimum dataset for transthoracic echocardiography detailing the core views needed for a standard echocardiogram. For patients with confirmed or suspected HCM, additional views and measurements are necessary. This guideline, therefore, supplements the minimum dataset and describes a tailored, stepwise approach to the echocardiographic examination, and echocardiography's position in the diagnostic pathway, before advising on the imaging of disease complications and invasive treatments.

Keywords: echocardiography; guidelines; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

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