1. Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Heart Failure in a 35-Year-Old Man.
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Papadopoulos K, Petrou PM, and Michaelides D
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- Adult, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated diagnostic imaging, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated drug therapy, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated physiopathology, Cardiovascular Agents therapeutic use, Heart Failure diagnostic imaging, Heart Failure drug therapy, Heart Failure physiopathology, Heart Rate, Humans, Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium diagnostic imaging, Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium drug therapy, Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium physiopathology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Recovery of Function, Therapeutics, Ventricular Function, Left, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated complications, Heart Failure etiology, Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium complications
- Abstract
Isolated ventricular noncompaction, a rare genetic cardiomyopathy, is thought to be caused by the arrest of normal myocardial morphogenesis. It is characterized by prominent, excessive trabeculation in a ventricular wall segment and deep intertrabecular recesses perfused from the ventricular cavity. The condition can present with heart failure, systematic embolic events, and ventricular arrhythmias. Two-dimensional echocardiography is the typical diagnostic method. We report a case of heart failure in a 35-year-old man who presented with palpitations. Two-dimensional echocardiograms revealed left ventricular noncompaction, which markedly improved after standard heart failure therapy.
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- 2017
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