Abstract:A case study of a 16-year-old male with symptoms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as well as skeletal muscle weakness is presented. A differential diagnosis is provided in light of specific laboratory testing and light microscopic findings which indicate a vacuolar myopathy affecting both cardiac and skeletal muscle. Vacuolar myopathies are a large and diverse group of disorders with a wide range of causes, clinical presentations, and ultrastructural findings. Select differential entities are then reviewed in te… Show more
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