[Asymmetric septal hypertrophy associated with "subclinical hypothyroidism"]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2004 Aug;57(8):792-5. doi: 10.1016/s0300-8932(04)77193-6.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We report a case of hypothyroid cardiomyopathy manifested as reversible asymmetric septal hypertrophy in a 61-year-old white woman diagnosed 20 years previously with primary hypothyroidism.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Septum / pathology
  • Heart Septum / ultrastructure
  • Humans
  • Hypothyroidism / complications*
  • Hypothyroidism / diagnosis
  • Hypothyroidism / drug therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Thyroxine / therapeutic use
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Thyroxine