Jeff Zucker Says Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is a Curable Disease: A Patient's Perspective

Barry J Maron; Martin S Maron

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.01.033

Jeff Zucker Says Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is a Curable Disease: A Patient's Perspective

Am J Cardiol. 2022 Jun 1:172:154-156. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.01.033.

Authors

Barry J Maron¹, Martin S Maron²

Affiliations

¹ HCM Center, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts. Electronic address: Barrymaron1@gmail.com.
² HCM Center, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts.

PMID: 35569883
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.01.033

Abstract

LV outflow obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can cause marked limiting symptoms of heart failure, reversible with surgical septal myectomy. Here we provide a patient's perspective on heart failure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and personal experience undergoing the myectomy operation to correct his substantial disability.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic* / complications
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic* / diagnosis
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic* / surgery
Heart Failure* / complications
Heart Septum / surgery
Humans
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction* / etiology