Key result
Isolated LV apical hypoplasia presents as a rare cardiomyopathy featuring a truncated, fatty-infiltrated apex.
Why the study?
Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia is a newly recognized, rare cardiomyopathy with limited reported cases since its first description in 2004.
Case Report (n=23)
Highlights a rare case of isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia in an asymptomatic 50-year-old man, contributing to the limited literature on this cardiomyopathy.
Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia (LVAH) is a newly recognized, rare cardiomyopathy which was first described in 2004.Until now, only 20 English-language literatures in relationship with Isolated LVAH were collected from PubMed by the author of this article.We report a case of 50-year-old man by health-examination without any symptom as this patient was first diagnosed in our hospital.This article includes two parts: case report and literature review.
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Wang et al. (2016) conducted a case report in Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia (n=23). Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia was evaluated on Clinical and radiological characteristics. Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by a truncated left ventricle with apical fatty infiltration, presenting with symptoms ranging from asymptomatic to heart failure.
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