An unusual case of left ventricular aneurysm in duchenne muscular dystrophy

Cardiovascular Ultrasound - Tập 8 - Trang 1-2 - 2010
Xiaozhou Du1, Matthew Zeglinski1, Nasir Shaikh2, Davinder S Jassal1,2,3
1Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2Section of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
3Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Tóm tắt

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) leads to structural heart disease, including dilated cardiomyopathy, in 90% of patients >18 years of age. Despite the ubiquity of cardiomyopathy associated with DMD, ventricular aneurysms in these patients have rarely been reported. We present a case of a basal inferoposterior aneurysm of the left ventricle in a 23-year-old male patient with DMD.

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