已有报道符合心肌病形态学及临床特征的老年人肥厚性心肌病。其中部份患者病情相对稳定,直到70岁甚至80岁以上仍无症状或极少有症状;另一些患者于60岁之后可突然出现心功能受限及心力衰竭。老年肥厚性心肌病患者的心脏相对较小,左室壁仅轻度增厚,一般不超过22mm,与年青人肥厚性心肌病相比;心室形状变形严重:左室流出道明显缩 Elderly hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has been reported in line with the morphological and clinical features of cardiomyopathy. Some of these patients are relatively stable until 70 or even 80 years of age with asymptomatic or minimal symptoms; others may have sudden cardiac dysfunction and heart failure after age 60. Elderly patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy heart is relatively small, only mild left ventricular wall thickening, usually not more than 22mm, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy compared with young people; severe deformity of the ventricular shape: left ventricular outflow tract was significantly reduced