Miocardiopatia em dentes de serra: uma causa rara de insuficiência cardíaca | Zendy

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Miocardiopatia em dentes de serra: uma causa rara de insuficiência cardíaca

Author(s) -

Bárbara Cardoso,

Conceição Trigo,

Nuno Jalles Tavares,

Fátima F. Pinto

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

revista portuguesa de cardiologia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.266

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 2174-2030

pISSN - 0870-2551

DOI - 10.1016/j.repc.2017.01.004

Subject(s) - humanities , art

Sawtooth cardiomyopathy is a rare form of left ventricular dysplasia of which only three cases have been reported in the literature. Its strange phenotype -projections of compacted myocardium -has led some authors to consider it a variant of left ventricular (LV) non-compaction. We present the case of a male patient, now aged 21 years, referred to our department at one month of life due to congestive heart failure. There was no relevant family history of cardiovascular disease. The initial echocardiogram revealed dilatation of the left chambers and severe systolic

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