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Coexistence of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and endomyocardial fibrosis with calcification: diagnosis using multimodality imaging
ESC heart failure
  • Lakshmi Muthukumar, Advocate Aurora Health
  • M Fuad Jan, Advocate Aurora Health
  • Joseph Whitnah, Advocate Aurora Health
  • A Jamil Tajik, Advocate Aurora Health
Affiliations

Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Department of Radiology Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center

Publication Date
12-1-2016
Abstract

A 48-year-old man from West Africa was evaluated for dyspnea. Echocardiography showed an echolucent mass at the left ventricular apex surrounded by a dense ridge of tissue, suggesting endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF). Doppler echocardiography showed restrictive hemodynamics and intramyocardial coronary blood flow at the hypertrophied apex, suggesting apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ApHCM) with calcified thrombus. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed a thickened myocardium with apical cavity obliteration and endomyocardial calcification, and gadolinium contrast demonstrated marked bright subendocardial and diffuse patchy intramyocardial hyperenhancement in the hypertrophied apical wall segment, confirming coexistence of EMF and ApHCM. Workup for known disorders of calcification was negative.

Document Type
Article
PubMed ID
27867529
Citation Information

Muthukumar L, Jan MF, Whitnah J, Tajik AJ. Coexistence of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and endomyocardial fibrosis with calcification: diagnosis using multimodality imaging. ESC Heart Fail. 2016;3(4):278-281. DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.12100