Crow-Fukase syndrome with ischemic cardiomyopathy

Intern Med. 2001 Aug;40(8):726-30. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.726.

Abstract

A 31-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further evaluation of heart failure symptoms. Crow-Fukase syndrome was diagnosed on the basis of findings of polyneuropathy, hepatomegaly, monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemia, and hypertrichosis. Dipyridamole-stress thallium-201 perfusion imaging, contrast left ventriculography, and coronary angiography revealed a markedly dilated and dysfunctioning left ventricle, extensive reversible ischemia with fixed defect, and multiple coronary lesions. Histopathology of myocardial biopsy specimens demonstrated ischemia-induced myocardial necrosis. These findings suggested that ischemic cardiomyopathy, probably due to inflammatory reactions of coronary arteries in Crow-Fukase syndrome, was responsible for the heart failure symptoms and left ventricular dysfunction in this patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Dipyridamole
  • Electrocardiography
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Ischemia / complications
  • Myocardial Ischemia / diagnosis
  • Myocardial Ischemia / etiology*
  • Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology
  • POEMS Syndrome / complications
  • POEMS Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • POEMS Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • POEMS Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Thallium
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnosis
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology

Substances

  • Vasodilator Agents
  • thallium chloride
  • Dipyridamole
  • Thallium