The most useful situation is to bring about the murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. The murmur of HOCM becomes quite loud with Valsalva. By decreasing left ventricular filling ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM ... (The most common way for doctors to elicit a murmur is the "Valsalva" maneuver, in which patients are asked to breathe out while they pinch their nose ...

The most important use of the Valsalva maneuver is to distinguish the murmur of aortic stenosis from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy — or simply to bring forth the murmur of HOCM.

High-intensity exercise raises sudden cardiac death risk in young hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients, independent of ...