Sabre dance pattern in mid-ventricular-apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an unusual finding

A 88-year-old woman with arterial hypertension and high ventricular rate atrial fibrillation was hospitalized for asthenia. After pharmacological control of blood pressure and heart rate (Panel A), echocardiography revealed an unknown mid-ventricular-apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, without left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction, even after Valsalva manoeuvre. Mid-ventricular-apical hypertrophy was severe (maximum diastolic wall...