[Clinical case of the month. Cardiac complications of acromegaly: a rare cause of dilated cardiomyopathy].
Acromegaly is a disease characterized by chronic growth hormone hypersecretion. Cardiovascular complications represent the main cause of death. We present here a rare case of dilated cardiomyopathy whose diagnosis revealed an acromegaly. This will provide the opportunity to review an uncommon disease and its recently reassessed prevalence.
Cardiologue, Service des Urgences, CHR Citadelle, Liège, Belgique.
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D000172:Acromegaly / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged