ABSTRACT
El mixoma es el tumor cardiaco más frecuente, se presenta comúnmente entre la tercera y sexta decada de la vida y es más prevalente en mujeres. Una forma de presentación es la embolia sistémica. Una mujer de 56 años de edad presentó síntomas de isquemia cerebral, infarto agudo de miocardio silente e isquemia en miembro inferior derecho. Se diagnosticó mixoma de aurícula izquierda y fue intervenida quirúrgicamente de urgencia.
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Embolism/etiology , Heart Neoplasms/complications , Myxoma/complications , Atrial Septum/diagnostic imaging , Female , Heart Atria/diagnostic imaging , Heart Neoplasms/pathology , Humans , Middle Aged , Myxoma/pathology , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
Restrictive cardiomyopathy is the least common form of cardiomyopathy, and the disease that most often cause it, is the system amyloidosis. We present a 62-year-old with a history of heart failure, which in its assessment highlights the discrepancy between the low voltage ventricular complexes in the electrocardiogram and the severity of left ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography. This discrepancy was the source of suspicion and subsequent confirmation of systemic amyloidosis with cardiac involvement.
La miocardiopatía restrictiva es la forma menos frecuente de cardiomiopatía, y la enfermedad que con mayor frecuencia la origina, es la amiloidosis sistema. Presentamos un paciente de 62 años, con antecedentes de insuficiencia cardiaca, que en su evaluación, destaca la discordancia entre el escaso voltaje de los complejos ventriculares en el electrocardiograma y la severidad del grosor parietal del ventrículo izquierdo en el ecocardiograma, siendo dicha discordancia, la fuente de sospecha y posterior confirmación de amiloidosis sistémica con compromiso cardiaco.
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Amyloidosis/diagnosis , Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive/diagnosis , Electrocardiography/methods , Heart Ventricles/diagnostic imaging , Amyloidosis/complications , Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive/etiology , Fatal Outcome , Heart Failure/complications , Heart Ventricles/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Myocardium/pathology , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
Restrictive cardiomyopathy is the least common form of cardiomyopathy, and the disease that most often cause it, is the system amyloidosis. We present a 62-year-old with a history of heart failure, which in its assessment highlights the discrepancy between the low voltage ventricular complexes in the electrocardiogram and the severity of left ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography. This discrepancy was the source of suspicion and subsequent confirmation of systemic amyloidosis with cardiac involvement.
Subject(s)
Amyloidosis/diagnosis , Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive/diagnosis , Electrocardiography/methods , Heart Ventricles/diagnostic imaging , Amyloidosis/complications , Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive/etiology , Fatal Outcome , Heart Failure/complications , Heart Ventricles/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Myocardium/pathologyABSTRACT
Restrictive cardiomyopathy is the least common form of cardiomyopathy, and the disease that most often cause it, is the system amyloidosis. We present a 62-year-old with a history of heart failure, which in its assessment highlights the discrepancy between the low voltage ventricular complexes in the electrocardiogram and the severity of left ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography. This discrepancy was the source of suspicion and subsequent confirmation of systemic amyloidosis with cardiac involvement.
