Abstract
When Harvey Cushing described his syndrome in 1932 he named it the killing disease because of its cardiovascular complications. Heart failure is rarely reported as a presenting feature. We report a case in which left ventricular failure (LVF) was the predominant feature, associated with gross left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) which regressed after treatment.
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