[A Transient Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy?]
Silvia KuzmiakovaBart De BoeckRichard KobzaSimon F StämpfliRenate Schoenenberger-BerzinsPublished in: Praxis (2023)
A Transient Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy? Abstract. We report on a 79-year-old female patient after blunt chest trauma. Based on T-negative findings on 12-lead ECG and apical left ventricular hypertrophy on echocardiography and cardiac MRI examination, apical hypertrophic cardiopathy was postulated. Subsequently, it was shown that these findings were present only transiently and completely normalized in the course. The apical changes were not due to hypertrophy of cardiomyocytes but to myocardial edema. Both Takotsubo syndrome and contusio cordis were considered as causes.
Keyphrases
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- left ventricular
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- case report
- heart failure
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- cerebral ischemia
- trauma patients
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- heart rate
- heart rate variability
- blood pressure
- magnetic resonance
- brain injury