Regression of severe alcoholic cardiomyopathy after abstinence of 10 weeks.
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy usually has a poor prognosis, but the case presented here documents a dramatic regression of left ventricular dysfunction in a patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Ejection fraction determined by echocardiography increased from 12% at the time of presentation to 45% 10 weeks later. This was associated with clinical resolution of congestive heart failure and a decrease in cardiac and left ventricular size documented by chest x-ray and echocardiography.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous