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Uncommon Etiology of Syncope in a Patient with Isolated Ventricular Noncompaction
Author(s) -
ENRIQUEZ SUSANA G.,
ENTEM FELIPE R.,
COBO MANUEL,
OLALLA JUAN JOSE
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00713.x
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , left ventricular noncompaction , syncope (phonology) , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , radiofrequency ablation , tachycardia , ventricular tachycardia , ablation , heart failure
Isolated noncompaction of left ventricular myocardium (IVNC) is categorized as an unclassified cardiomyopathy by the World Health Organization.We describe the case of a 29‐year‐old woman who was diagnosed with IVNC after suffering two syncopes caused by an atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) that was successfully ablated. We report successful radiofrequency ablation in an adult with this cardiomyopathy.Although the presence of syncope in these patients obliged us to rule out a ventricular tachycardia as the most probable etiology, our case shows how an exhaustive study is needed to look for other possible and curable causes.