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Abstract
Ventricular noncompaction (VNC) describes a cardiomyopathy characterized by excessive myocardial trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. Detection rates are increasingly rising and the frequency of NVC has changed from a disease that is thought to be rare to that described as 'relatively common'. However, there had been a number of un-answered questions regarding the clinical and echocardiographic features of VNC. In this review we discuss the frequency of VNC and emphasize its distinctive clinical features and associations.Entities:
Keywords: Cardiomyopathy; Noncompaction
Year: 2009 PMID: 23960572 PMCID: PMC3727353 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsha.2009.06.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Saudi Heart Assoc ISSN: 1016-7315