A patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy accompanied by right ventricular dilation of unknown cause

Jpn Circ J. 1999 Feb;63(2):137-40. doi: 10.1253/jcj.63.137.

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease characterized by an unknown cause of hypertrophy in the left or right ventricle. The dilated phase of HCM shows disease conditions resembling dilated cardiomyopathy, such as ventricular dilation, thin ventricular wall, and reduction of the ejection fraction. A patient presented with left ventricular concentric hypertrophy accompanied by right ventricular dilatation of unknown cause. Right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens showed characteristic myocardial disarray. Therefore, there is the possibility that the patient had right and left ventricular HCM in the process toward the dilated phase, in which dilatation first occurred in the right ventricle.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Atrial Fibrillation / etiology
  • Biopsy
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / complications*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / pathology
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / pathology
  • Disease Progression
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Function Tests
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Hyperbilirubinemia / complications
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Radiography
  • Ultrasonography
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology*