title: Left ventricular aneurysm associated with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium.
abstract: A 66-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of left ventricular failure and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. Two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses, findings consistent with noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy demonstrated a defect in the anterobasal left ventricular segment. Coronary angiogram was normal, but the left ventriculogram showed an aneurysm in the anterior myocardial segments. This is the first reported case with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium associated with left ventricular aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 1-8-13 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8309, Japan. yuichis@med.nihon-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Naoya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoda
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kunimoto
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukamizu
authors.forename: Shigemasa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.forename: Tadateru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: Kotaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tokai
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kasamaki
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uchiyama
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koyama
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000473:pathology