Vol 66, No 7 (2008)
Other
Published online: 2008-07-23
Case report
Congestive cardiomyopathy and left intraventricular thrombus as a manifestation of Churg-Strauss syndrome
DOI: 10.33963/v.kp.80484
Kardiol Pol 2008;66(7):761-763.
Abstract
A case of a 38-year-old female with symptomatic Churg-Strauss syndrome and congestive cardiomyopathy, complicated by cardiac arrest and left ventricular thrombus formation, is presented. Prompt institution of low molecular weight heparin and steroids resulted in rapid thrombus lysis and improvement of systolic left ventricular function.
Keywords: Churg-Strauss syndromecardiomyopathythrombus
