Crit Care Resusc
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To review patients managed in an intensive care unit diagnosed with dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. ⋯ Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not an uncommon cause of hypotension resistant to catecholamines in critically ill patients. The diagnosis is important because management which includes fluid loading, vasopressors and reducing catecholamine infusions, differs from the management of other causes of shock.