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By Smith with comments from our electrophysiologist, Rehan Karim. (And of course Ken's comments at the bottom) An elderly obese woman with cardiomyopathy, Left bundle branch block, and chronic hypercapnea presented hypoxic with altered mental status. She was intubated. Bedside cardiac ultrasound showed moderately decreased LV function. CT of the chest showed no pulmonary embolism but bibasilar infiltrates.
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Thanks to Drs. Harrell and Bower for their excellent case discussion in the October issue of ACEP Now. They made a final diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and discussed how that diagnosis was made despite the initial anchoring on the wrong diagnosis. They continued to work the patient when they noted that the main presenting signtachycardiapersisted after the treatment for the initially anchored diagnosis, anxiety and panic disorder, and, possibly, hypovolemia.
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