A 60-year-old woman with systemic sclerosis, lung fibrosis, and primary biliary cirrhosis was admitted to our hospital because of heart failure. Ventricular aneurysms were found in the apex and the posterior wall of the left ventricle by angiocardiography; however, there was no sign of coronary artery stenosis. A myocardial biopsy specimen revealed diffuse focal myocardial fibrosis. In this case, the patient with systemic sclerosis developed a rare complication of ventricular aneurysms without coronary disease.
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