Frontier in Medical & Health Research
PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND CURRENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
PDF

Keywords

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), Obstructive cardiomyopathy, Non obstructive cardiomyopathy, Mutation, Sarcomeres, Arrhythmias, Septal reduction therapy, Calcium channels.

How to Cite

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND CURRENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY. (2026). Frontier in Medical and Health Research, 4(3), 2836-2847. https://fmhr.net/index.php/fmhr/article/view/3497

Abstract

Uncertain inaccessible progressive myocardial hypertrophy, systolic and diastolic ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmias, impulsive heart death, and histopathologic alterations like myocyte disorder and myocardial fibrotic change are the hallmarks of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most prevalent genetic cardiac disease. HCM can be classified as either obstructive (oHCM) or non-obstructive (nHCM). Robert Teare issued the first modern explanation of HCM in 1958 with the publication of a number of examples of muscular hamartoma or asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart in young individuals who died suddenly. The description of the disease's histological characteristics, clinical manifestation, and course of treatment was the responsibility of Dr. Eugene Braunwald and acquaintances. Built on the existence of heart hypertrophy, the estimated occurrence of HCM in the overall adult population is between 1:300 and 1:600. In the varied population, the prevalence of HCM rises to almost 1 in 250 individuals when more sensitive diagnostic methods, family history, and genetic data are combined. Pharmaceutical treatment to reduce symptoms, such as beta-blockers as first-line treatment and, if required, calcium channel blockers, disopyramide, and myosin inhibitors (adults only). When symptoms continue after taking medication, the effectiveness of septal reduction therapy (alcohol septal ablation or myectomy) might be evaluated. Both the direct functional effects of the disease-causing mutation and the secondary functional alterations that the plagued myocardium experiences in reaction to it are responsible for the diverse clinical appearance of HCM, which encompasses a number of pathological characteristics. In heart muscle, sarcomeres are the fundamental unit of reduction. Destruction to the structural or practical integrity of sarcomeres causes major cardiac diseases called cardio-myopathies.

PDF