Improvement of left ventricular function in alcoholic cardiomyopathy documented by serial gated cardiac pool scanning.
Serial gated cardiac blood pool scans showed a gradual return to normal left ventricular function over ten months in a 44-year-old patient who presented initially with severe alcoholic congestive cardiomyopathy. The clinical signs of left ventricular failure abated considerably before myocardial function improved objectively on gated blood pool scanning.
D000328:Adult; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous