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ICD Implantation in Noncompaction of the Left Ventricular Myocardium: A Case Report
Author(s) -
COPPOLA GIUSEPPE,
GUTTILLA DANIELA,
CORRADO EGLE,
FALLETTA CALOGERO,
MARRONE GIANLUCA,
FARULLA RICCARDO AIRÒ,
CIARAMITARO GIANFRANCO,
ASSENNATO PASQUALE,
NOVO SALVATORE
Publication year - 2009
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.1540-8159.2009.02443.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , left ventricular noncompaction , ventricular tachycardia , magnetic resonance imaging , cardiomyopathy , sudden cardiac death , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , sudden death , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , heart failure , radiology
Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium (INVM) is an uncommon cardiomyopathy characterized by the persistence of fetal myocardium with prominent trabecular meshwork and deep intertrabecular recesses, often associated with systolic dysfunction and ventricular dilatation. A 23‐year‐old man from Burkina Faso was referred to our operative unit with a diagnosis of INVM, made with echocardiogram and magnetic resonance imaging and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. The literature reports the incidence of malignant ventricular arrhythmias in as many as 47% of the patients and sudden cardiac death in almost 50% of them and this supported our decision to perform implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators implantation.