Acute Ventricular Wall Thickening: Sepsis, Thrombotic Microangiopathy, or Myocarditis?

Figure 1

Telediastolic parasternal long (panel (a)) and short (panel (b)) axis view showing normal thickness of the myocardium 2 months before admission. Panels (c) and (d) show telediastolic parasternal long and short axis view, respectively, of the same patient, 6 days after admission. Impressive diffuse myocardium thickening is observed.

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