HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, COMPLICATED BIVENTRICULAR HEART FAILURE AND PULMONARY ARTERY THROMBOEMBOLIA, IN AN ELDERLY WOMAN

Abstract

The paper presents clinical, instrumental, and pathologo-anatomical data for an elderly female patient with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (DCMP), complicated by biventricular heart failure, pulmonary artery thromboembolia, and death. The problems of DCMP diagnostics, clinical variants, and possible outcomes are discussed.

Keywords

• hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• elderly age
• pulmonary artery thromboembolia
• heart failure