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Regression of Severe Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy after Abstinence of 10 Weeks
Author(s) -
Agatston Arthur S.,
Snow Matthew E.,
Samet Philip
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1986.tb05109.x
Subject(s) - alcoholic cardiomyopathy , abstinence , cardiomyopathy , medicine , cardiology , heart failure , psychiatry
Alcohofc cardiomyopathy usuaRy has a poor prognosis, but the case i presented here documents a dramatic regression of left ventricular i dysfunction in a patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Ejection fraction determined by echocardiography increased from 12% at the time of presentation to 45% 10 weeks later. This was associated I with clinical resolution of conjestive heart failure and a decrease in i cardiac and left ventricular size documented by chest x‐ray and