Thromboembolic acute myocardial infarction in a congenital double chambered left ventricle.
A 61-year-old woman with a congenital double-chamber left ventricle (DCLV) was admitted because of an anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Urgent coronary angiography showed a thrombotic occlusion of the distal part of the left anterior descending artery (LAD). The left ventricular injection revealed a slightly reduced ejection fraction, antero-apical akinesia and an accessory chamber. Two dimensional and three dimensional echocardiography showed anterior akinesia with an accessory chamber at the apex which was separated by a fibromuscular ridge distal to the papillary muscles. The DCLV with myocardial contraction in the additional chamber was originally diagnosed seven years ago during a routine follow-up echocardiography in the course of management for thyroid cancer and at that time left ventricular function was described to be normal. Thromboembolism was assumed to have originated from the hypocontractile left accessory chamber and the patient was set on oral anticoagulation. During follow-up global left ventricular function normalized.
Division of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Marco
M
Studer
Michel
M
Zuber
Peiman
P
Jamshidi
Peter
P
Buser
Paul
P
Erne
D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*
D000925:Anticoagulants