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Published on: December 2, 2014
Acute myocarditis and left ventricular "hypertrophy"
M Riera Sagrera1, M Fiol Sala, J Pérez Bárcena
1Intensive Care Medicine Department and Coronary Unit, Son Dureta Hospital, c/ Andrea Doria 55, 07014 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain. molinar@teleline.es
Abstract:
Echocardiographic abnormalities of myocarditis are polymorphous and nonspecific. The presence of increased ventricular wall thickness, typically transient, is an infrequent finding in myocarditis that can correspond to an improvement in the clinical status of the patient and the ejection fraction. We report the case of a patient with acute myocarditis and the echocardiographic abnormalities observed during the course of his myocarditis: transient left ventricular "hypertrophy" associated with improvement of the left ventricular function.
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