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HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH MIDVENTRICULAR OBSTRUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH OSTIUM SECUNDUM-TYPE ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT
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Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology
Zonguldak, Turkey
Online publication date: 2005-07-15
Publication date: 2005-07-15
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Mustafa Aydın
Zonguldak Karaelmas Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakultesi, Kardiyoloji AD, Kozlu 67600, Zonguldak, Turkey,
Tel: 903722610169, Fax: 903722610155
Eur J Gen Med 2005;2(3):129-131
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ABSTRACT
This paper reports a 74 year-old-man with a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with mid-ventricular obstruction and a secundum type atrial septal defect. He had been suffering from shortness of breath and occasional attacks of dizziness. Doppler echocardiography revealed the gradient in the mid-left ventricular area. A transesophageal echocardiogram confirmed the findings of transthoracic study and an ostium secundum-type atrial septal defect was documented. The present case represents a rare combination of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with midventricular obstruction, and an ostium secundum type atrial septal defect in an elderly man.