Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Heart Failure in a 35-Year-Old Man | Zendy

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Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Heart Failure in a 35-Year-Old Man

Author(s) -

Kyriacos Papadopoulos,

Petros Petrou,

Demos Michaelides

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

texas heart institute journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1526-6702

pISSN - 0730-2347

DOI - 10.14503/thij-15-5371

Subject(s) - medicine , palpitations , cardiology , heart failure , left ventricular noncompaction , cardiomyopathy

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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