Haemochromatosis presenting as congestive cardiomyopathy and responding to venesection.

Abstract

A case of primary haemochromatosis presenting as an obscure congestive cardiomyopathy in a young man is described. No other clinical evidence of haemochromatosis was present. Substantial improvement followed venesection. The cardiac manifestations of haemochromatosis are reviewed. It is suggested that the diagnosis must be excluded in any male patient with cardiac disease of undetermined aetiology.