Left ventricular aneurysm associated with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium.
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.
Sato
Yuichi
Y
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
Matsumoto
Naoya
N
Yoda
Shunichi
S
Inoue
Fumio
F
Kunimoto
Satoshi
S
Fukamizu
Seiji
S
Tani
Shigemasa
S
Takayama
Tadateru
T
Tokai
Kotaro
K
Kasamaki
Yuji
Y
Saito
Satoshi
S
Uchiyama
Takahisa
T
Koyama
Yasushi
Y
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