| Literature DB >> 21723531 |
William Clifford Roberts1, Sumit Jagdish Karia, Jong Mi Ko, Paul Arthur Grayburn, Betsy Ann George, Shelley Anne Hall, Johannes Jacob Kuiper, Dan Marshall Meyer.
Abstract
Three patients (2 women) 36, 45, and 49 years of age underwent cardiac transplantation for what was diagnosed clinically as nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Examination of the transthoracic echocardiogram and explanted heart in each disclosed marked hypertrabeculation involving the free wall of the very dilated left ventricle, a finding consistent with what has been termed "isolated ventricular noncompaction" (IVNC). Although these 3 cases anatomically fulfilled the echocardiographic definition of IVNC, review of previous publications containing gross photographs of the heart suggests that IVNC is overdiagnosed at least morphologically.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21723531 DOI： 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.04.027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Cardiol ISSN： 0002-9149 Impact factor: 2.778