title: Noncompaction of left ventricular myocardium in the presence of calcific aortic stenosis in an adult.
abstract: We describe an adult patient with a hitherto unreported association of severe aortic stenosis with extensive noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium without any hypertrophy; however, there was severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the presence of a normal-sized left ventricular cavity on two-dimensional echocardiography. This condition was differentiated from persistence of embryonic intramyocardial sinusoids by selective coronary angiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi. ppsengupta@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mohan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arora
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left