Cutler D J, Isner J M, Bracey A W, Hufnagel C A, Conrad P W, Roberts W C, Kerwin D M, Weintraub A M
Am J Med. 1980 Dec;69(6):923-8. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9343(80)80020-9.
Cardiac involvement in hemochromatosis typically results in congestive cardiomyopathy; a restrictive cardiomyopathy due to hemochromatosis is distinctly rare. A restrictive cardiomyopathy, which developed in the patient described in this report, was due to hemochromatosis which mimicked constrictive pericarditis clinically, echocardiographically and hemodynamically, and resulted in a thoracotomy for attempted surgical therapy. The fact that hemochromatosis represents the only cause of a restrictive cardiomyopathy that is potentially reversible by medical therapy makes early recognition of hemochromatosis heart disease important.
