A 38-year-old HIV-positive female, recently started on antiretroviral therapy, presented in extremis. She had features suggestive of an HIV-associated cardiomyopathy complicated by the following problems: a four-day-old stroke, extensive deep venous thrombosis, and massive pulmonary embolism. She received intravenous streptokinase with rapid improvement, both haemodynamically and, unexpectedly,...

A 22-year old woman visited the LAMB Hospital, Parbatipur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, in February 2010, with exertional dyspnea for three weeks. She had had a normal vaginal delivery four months ago; 2-dimensional echocardiogram showed severe left ventricular dysfunction and biventricular thrombi, which resolved without complications after anticoagulation. Biventricular thrombosis with peripartum ca...

Abstract Background Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an increasingly widespread characterized by acute and usually transient left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. Despite its nature, the phase can be serious complications such as LV thrombosis, occurred in this case. Case description A 93-year-old woman was admitted to our emergency department due a recent self-limiting episode of chest pain. The ECG s...

background: serum trace element alteration has been reported in dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy. the reports were controversial. we have studied serum zinc level in cardiomyopathy patients in northern province of mazandaran and compared them with healthy volunteers. methods: serum zinc level was measured in 30 ischemic and 18 dilated cardiomyopathy patients against 27 healthy volunteers. it...

5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is a key chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of many gastrointestinal tract adenocarcinomas. Despite its proven therapeutic efficacy, 5-FU also possesses several undesired cardiac toxicities, including coronary vasospasm, coronary thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and sudden cardiac death. This review addresses the incidence, mechanisms of action, clinical presentation, risk...

Left ventricular thrombi usually occur in the setting of an acute myocardial infarction, left ventricular aneurysm, or dilated cardiomyopathy. In the absence of ventricular wall motion abnormalities, they are rare. This report describes a patient with ulcerative colitis in whom two-dimensional echocardiography revealed a left intraventricular mass. Thrombosis in ulcerative colitis is a serious ...

A young woman suffering from congenital hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) received a transcoronary ablation of the septal hypertrophy (TASH) and an automated Cardioverter/Defibrillator (AICD) for the relief of progressive symptoms of heart failure. She developed an acute heart failure in the perioperative period and had to be put on veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation...

Case report illustrates obstruction encountered in a patient with end-stage dilated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who underwent LVAD implantation. The morphology reversed in early postoperative period to HCM. Pump replacement required coring of the ventricular muscle. Dilated end-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can revert back to the original morphology on decompression.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCMP) is characterised by a temporary aneurysm of the left ventricular apex in individuals without significant stenosis of the coronary arteries. It is extremely rare to see it combined with a thrombus. In this case report, we present a 57-year-old female patient with TCMP in whom apical thrombus was treated with short-term warfarin use.