Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a patient with Crohn's disease: a case report.
Cardiac manifestations of Crohn's disease are rare; the most common is pericarditis. In the present report we briefly describe a 56-year-old man with Crohn's disease who presented to the emergency department due to paroxysmal atrial flutter. A transthoracic echocardiographic study revealed asymmetric left ventricular hypertrophy without outflow pressure gradient. Reviewing the literature, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has not been previously described in patients with Crohn's disease.
Letsas
Konstantinos P
KP
Kounas
Stavros P
SP
Evangelou
Dimitrios
D
Pappas
Loukas K
LK
Efremidis
Michalis
M
Sideris
Antonios
A
Kardaras
Fotis
F
D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged