Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy

Ananda C Dharshan; Avshim Tavakoli; Sharad Jaitly; Farshid Radparvar; Mohandas M Shenoy

doi:10.15420/ahhj.2010.8.2.122

Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy

Am Heart Hosp J. 2010 Winter;8(2):E122-4. doi: 10.15420/ahhj.2010.8.2.122.

Authors

Ananda C Dharshan¹, Avshim Tavakoli, Sharad Jaitly, Farshid Radparvar, Mohandas M Shenoy

Affiliation

¹ Department of Critical Care, Queens Hospital Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Jamaica, NY 11432, USA.

PMID: 21928179
DOI: 10.15420/ahhj.2010.8.2.122

Abstract

In this article, we describe three patients with heart failure whose 2D echocardiograms showed left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy characterized by prominent trabeculation with deep intertrabecular spaces in the myocardium.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Cardiomyopathies / diagnostic imaging*
Cardiomyopathies / physiopathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology