The unnamed middle-aged man was found to be suffering from a condition known as Wall to Wall Heart.
A middle-aged man whose heart had expanded to fill his entire chest cavity has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition known as Wall to Wall Heart.doctors explain how the condition, often caused by Ebstein's anomaly—a condition usually found in infants— was discovered when the man presented with breathlessness that had lasted for around six months.
Doctors performed a chest X-ray which revealed"gross cardiomegaly," which in layman's terms is an enlarged heart. This is measured using the ratio to which the heart fills the chest or thoracic cavity—the Cardiothoracic ratio . This unnamed middle-aged man had a CTR of 1, a value that means his heart had swelled to fill his entire chest cavity, with a 100 percent cardiothoracic ratio.
University College London Institute of Child Health Cardiac Unit Professor, Robert Anderson, who was not involved in this case study, told an x-ray shows the heart of an unnamed middle aged man whose heart swelled to fill his chest. the heart size is reduced after treatment for the condition that very rarely affects adults.Anderson said that with Wall to Wall Heart, the name says it all.
Anderson said that the condition is much worse in infants because the enlarged heart"squeezes out" the lungs meaning they don't work properly., said that in neonates, the condition can be spotted by echocardiography. He said it is"a very bad prognostic feature."
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