CardioNerds Case Study: Cardiomyopathy and Infantile Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Lead to a Unifying Diagnosis

CardioNerds co-founder Dr. Dan Ambinder and guest host, Dr. Pooja Prasad, are joined by Drs. Donny Mattia, Sri Nayak, Harrison VanDolah, and Tabitha Moe discuss the following case: The cardiology department is consulted by the OB team for a 27-year-old women G1, now P1, who has just delivered a healthy baby boy at 34 weeks gestation after going into premature labor. The patient is experiencing shortness of breath and is found to have a significant past cardiac history, including atrial fibrillation and preexcitation, now with a pacemaker and intracardiac defibrillator.

In this podcast, the CardioNerds and colleagues review the differential diagnosis for peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) and then combine findings from her infant son, who is seen by our pediatric cardiology colleagues and is found to have severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The case  focuses on the differential diagnosis for PPCM, HCM, pearls on Danon Disease and other HCM “phenocopies,” and the importance of good history.

This podcast originally appeared on the CardioNerds.