TY - JOUR
T1 - Examination of isolated ventricular noncompaction (hypertrabeculation) as a distinct entity in adults
AU - Roberts, William Clifford
AU - Karia, Sumit Jagdish
AU - Ko, Jong Mi
AU - Grayburn, Paul Arthur
AU - George, Betsy Ann
AU - Hall, Shelley Anne
AU - Kuiper, Johannes Jacob
AU - Meyer, Dan Marshall
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PY - 2011/9/1
Y1 - 2011/9/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.04.027
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.04.027
M3 - Article
C2 - 21723531
AN - SCOPUS:80051799936
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 108
SP - 747
EP - 752
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 5
ER -