title: Isolated noncompaction of the myocardium: multiplane transesophageal echocardiography diagnosis in an adult.
abstract: We describe a case of isolated noncompaction of the myocardium in a 66-year-old patient. Peculiar anatomic features of this disease were clearly suspected on transthoracic echocardiography and precisely recognized through transesophageal echocardiography. The role of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in the detection of this rare disease is described in this report.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Cardiologia dell'Universita' degli Studi, Fondazione I. Monzino IRCCS, Centro di Studio per le Ricerche Cardiovascolari del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maltagliati
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pepi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male