Acute Medicine | Cardiovascular | Causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Causes of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Session Overview
Description
This session provides a brief overview of the different causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:

• List the various causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)

• HCM can be due to a number of causes, which may be familial or non-familial
• When assessing a patient with HCM on echocardiogram, alternative causes other than sarcomeric protein gene mutations should be considered