Isolated Left Ventricular Apical Hypoplasia: Reporting a Case With Mild Manifestations and Different Echocardiography Features
نویسندگان
1 Islamic Azad university, Najafabad Branch, Isfahan, IR Iran
2 Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran
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چکیده
Introduction: Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia is an unusual type of cardiomyopathy that presents with different clinicalmanifestations according to the age of the disease, ranging from no symptoms in children to congestive heart failure, pulmonaryedema, or even malignant tachycardia in adults. To our knowledge, only a few cases of isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasiahave been reported in Asian adults.Case Presentation: Herein, we described an adult case of isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia referred to our heart center inIsfahan, Iran in 2015 with a complaint of mild dyspnea with the absence of obvious fatty tissue in the heart’s apex and an absence ofany shunt, which are common findings in patients with this phenomenon.Conclusions: Patients faced with isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia should be monitored by echocardiography because ofthis disease’s possible progressive trend to life-threatening consequences.
