A heart murmur, detected as an unusual sound during a heartbeat, can be an indicator of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic condition causing thickening of the heart muscle. A heart murmur is ...
Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal defects. A ...
Background A 48-year-old man with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) presented with palpitations, symptoms of medically refractory class II angina, and NYHA class II–III heart failure.