title: Cardiomegaly following extensive burns.
abstract: One of our patients had been recovering from prolonged illness for about eight months following extensive deep burns of the lower limbs, along with other complications, when he had a sudden attack of acute dyspnea with orthopnea. The cause of this condition was diagnosed as secondary hypodynamic cardiomyopathy. We found no previous report of such a complication following burns in the available literature.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D016038:Skin Transplantation