25 July 2026
: Case report
A 46-Year-Old Man Presenting With Chest Pain Due to Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Yamaguchi Syndrome) Diagnosed by Multimodal Cardiac Imaging
Challenging differential diagnosis, Management of emergency care, Rare disease
Mauro de Deus Passos ABDEF 1,2*, Daniel Lopes Marques de Araújo ABDEF 3, Lucas de Ávila Mariano ABDEF 3, Dilson Palhares Ferreira ABDEF 1,2, Luciano Moreira Alves ABDEF 4,5, Simone Nascimento dos Santos ABDEF 6DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.953259
Am J Case Rep 2026; 27:e953259
Figure 2 Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) assessing myocardial wall thicknessTransthoracic echocardiographic images in the parasternal long-axis and apical views showing increased diastolic wall thickness in the (A) left ventricular (LV) anteroseptal basal segment (15.3 mm), (B) LV apex segment (18.8 mm), (C) LV septal apical segment (20.4 mm), and (D) LV anterior apical segment (20.0 mm). The images demonstrate the characteristic “spade-like” configuration of the LV cavity during diastole. LV, left ventricular; TTE, transthoracic echocardiogram.






