Tuberculous dilated cardiomyopathy: an under-recognized entity?
BACKGROUND
Tuberculosis (TB) is a common public health problem in many parts of the world. TB is generally believed to spare these four organs-heart, skeletal muscle, thyroid and pancreas. We describe a rare case of myocardial TB diagnosed on a post-mortem cardiac biopsy.


METHODS
Patient presented with history suggestive of congestive heart failure. We describe the clinical presentation, investigations and outcome of this case, and review the literature on the involvement of myocardium by TB.


CONCLUSIONS
Involvement of myocardium by TB is rare. However it should be suspected as a cause of congestive heart failure in any patient with features suggestive of TB. Increasing recognition of the entity and the use of endomyocardial biopsy may help us detect more cases of this "curable" form of cardiomyopathy.
Agarwal
Ritesh
R
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector-12, Chandigarh-160012, India. riteshpgi@gmail.com
Malhotra
Puneet
P
Awasthi
Anshu
A
Kakkar
Nandita
N
Gupta
Dheeraj
D
D000328:Adult; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology