Key result
An 8-year-old cat with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy developed an unusual pathological cascade resulting in left ventricular apical outpouching and chronic intracavitary thrombosis.
Why the study?
Left ventricular apical outpouchings are an infrequent complication of myocardial ischaemia in humans, and very few reports exist in veterinary medicine.
Case Report (n=1)
This report documents a rare veterinary case of left ventricular apical outpouching and thrombosis secondary to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a cat.
This report describes the transthoracic echocardiographic findings and clinical evolution of an 8‐year‐old cat with a left ventricular apical outpouching lesion with chronic intracavitary thrombosis following a suspected myocardial ischaemia secondary to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Apical left ventricular outpouchings, true or false aneurysm, are currently considered an infrequent complication of myocardial ischaemia in humans, and very few reports of cardiac outpouching exist in veterinary medicine. This report describes an unusual pathological cascade in a cat with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that resulted in left ventricular apical outpouching and thrombosis.
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Saponaro et al. (2025) conducted a case report in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=1). Myocardial ischaemia secondary to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was evaluated on Left ventricular apical outpouching and thrombosis. An 8-year-old cat with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy developed an unusual pathological cascade resulting in left ventricular apical outpouching and chronic intracavitary thrombosis.
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