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A patient with acute myocarditis developed transient left ventricular hypertrophy that was associated with an improvement in left ventricular function.
Case Report (n=1)
Transient increased ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography in acute myocarditis can be an infrequent finding that corresponds to clinical and functional improvement.
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Transient LV hypertrophy may signal functional recovery in acute myocarditis; single case leaves open its prognostic value.
Echocardiographic abnormalities of myocarditis are polymorphous and nonspecific. The presence of increased ventricular wall thickness, typically transient, is an infrequent finding in myocarditis that can correspond to an improvement in the clinical status of the patient and the ejection fraction. We report the case of a patient with acute myocarditis and the echocardiographic abnormalities observed during the course of his myocarditis: transient left ventricular "hypertrophy" associated with improvement of the left ventricular function.
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Sagrera et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Acute myocarditis (n=1). Acute myocarditis was evaluated. A patient with acute myocarditis developed transient left ventricular hypertrophy that was associated with an improvement in left ventricular function.
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