title: Dilated alcoholic cardiomyopathy and incidental lymphoma occuring in a 56 year old man who was being managed for hypertensive heart disease in Enugu Nigeria--a rare finding.
abstract: We present a case of dilated alcoholic cardiomyopathy occurring in a 56-year-old Nigerian male. He admitted to taking alcoholic beverage, approximately 2-3 bottles of different brands of beer per day for about 30 years, but stopped three years ago on medical advice. He had a history of progressively worsening dyspnoea and encephalopathy, from decreasing ejection fraction. This resulted in a poor blood supply to the vital centers of the brain. Autopsy confirmed a dilated cardiomyopathy with an incidental fairly advanced B cell lymphoma involving the liver and spleen. The latter was thought to be a coincidental finding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Morbid Anatomy, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Enugu State Nigeria.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nzegwu
authors.forename: O C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Okafor
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Olusina
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ike
authors.forename: A U
authors.initials: AU
authors.lastname: Mbah
mesh_terms: D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000453:epidemiology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D033162:Incidental Findings; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria