A case of Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysm with Ventricular Tachycardia and Congestive Heart Failure Detected 17 Years after the Diagnosis of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
10.2185/jjrm.50.708
- VernacularTitle:心尖部肥大型心筋症（ＡＰＨ）と診断された１７年後に心室頻拍，心不全をきたし，心尖部心室りゅうが確認された１例
- Author:
Kaori OHMORI
;
Toshiaki TAKAHASHI
;
Satoru TAKEDA
;
Kohei FUKAHORI
;
Masayuki YOSHIDA
;
Etsuko FUSHIMI
;
Nobuyo SEKIGUCHI
;
Hajime WATANABE
;
Masato HAYASHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2002;50(5):708-714
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
A 73-year-old man was admitted to the hospital on March 31, 2000 because of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (VT). In 1983, he was diagnosed as having apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (APH). Electrocardiograms showed high amplitude of R waves and giant negative T waves (GNT), and left ventriculography (LVG) revealed spade like configuration. He stopped medication without leave six months after the diagnosis. The latest ECG showed a decrease in amplitude of R waves, no signs of GNT, ST elevation in precordial leads, and an increase in QRS duration. LVG demonstrated midventricular obstruction, apical aneurysm, and the intraventricular pressure gradient in systolic phase was 56 mm Hg. No stenotic lesion was observed in coronary arteriography. Early diastolic paradoxic flow from the apical chamber toward the outflow of the left ventricle was detected by pulsed Doppler echocardiography. VT was successfully treated with beta-blocker and amiodarone, but he needed hospital treatment again one month later because of congestive heart failure. During the follow-up of APH, the decrease in amplitude of R waves and disappeasance of GNT, ST elevation, and the increase in QRS duration in electrocardiograms, and the detection of early diastolic paradoxic flow by echocardiography could be the predictors of developing apical aneurysm and/or left ventricular dysfunction.
