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01.02.2015 | Case study
Atypical form of left ventricular noncompaction resembling mass appearance in papillary muscles
verfasst von:
C.E. Cagliyan, MD, R.E. Akilli, A. Deniz, O.S. Deveci, S. Demir, M. Kanadasi
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Ausgabe 1/2015
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Excerpt
Myocardial noncompaction is a unique and unclassified cardiomyopathy [
1]. Its incidence seems to be rising in conjunction with the development of cardiac imaging. It is strongly associated with the development of heart failure, lethal arrhythmias, and thromboembolic events [
2]. In this report, we present the case of a young male patient with echocardiographic signs of severe left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC). …