A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to chest tightness induced by activity that had started about 2 months earlier. To clarify the causes of chest pain in this patient, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed, resulting in a diagnosis of ventricular apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with intramyocardial calcification.
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