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Adipositas Cordis: A Rare and Poorly Understood Cardiomyopathy Cover

Adipositas Cordis: A Rare and Poorly Understood Cardiomyopathy

Open Access
|Apr 2018

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Figure 1.

Transthoracic echocardiogram showing severely enlarged interventricular septum with a thickness of 3.5 cm (normal range 0.7–1.1 cm).

Figure 2.

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates a mass centered in the interventricular septum (arrow).

Figure 3.

Endomyocardial biopsy (H&E stained sections at 100× magnification), which illustrates abundant benign adipocytes transecting myocytes. The myocytes themselves appear relatively normal without hypertrophy or significant histologic findings.

Language: English
Page range: 147 - 149
Published on: Apr 1, 2018
Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2018 Angel I. Martin, Igor T. Sunjic, Carlos A. Rojas, John Donatelli, Jon Finan, Cristiano Caldeira, Bengt Herweg, Benjamin D. Mackie, published by Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
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