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Exercise-induced abnormal blood pressure responses are related to subendocardial ischemia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Noriko Yoshida, MD^*, Hisao Ikeda, MD^*, Toyofumi Wada, MD^*, Akira Matsumoto, MD^*, Sanae Maki, MD^*, Aiko Muro, MD^*, Akira Shibata, PhD and Tsutomu Imaizumi, MD, FACC^*

^* Department of Internal Medicine III, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan
Department of Public Health, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

View larger version (87K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Stress (top) and delayed (bottom) thallium tomographic images of the heart of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who had abnormal blood pressure response during exercise testing. Note that stress images demonstrate apparent left ventricular cavity dilatation in the basal, midventricular short axis and vertical long axis slices.