The woman had a disorder called hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Ramos sat across from the patient with a model of the heart and a pad of paper to help him show how this small ...

Despite extraordinary advances in understanding hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) at the molecular and genetic level, the overall clinical management of patients with HOCM remains ...

The most important use of the Valsalva maneuver is to distinguish the murmur of aortic stenosis from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy — or simply to bring forth the murmur of HOCM.

This relates to the hemodynamics in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). In HOCM, the increased velocity in the left ventricular outflow tract decreases pressure in this region causing ...