title: Live/real time three-dimensional echocardiographic demonstration of left ventricular noncompaction and thrombi.
abstract: We describe two adult patients with left ventricular noncompaction in whom live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (3DTTE) supplemented two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in making a definitive diagnosis of clots coexisting with trabeculations in the left ventricle. Mobility of clots and the presence of central echolucencies consistent with clot lysis were best demonstrated by 3DTTE and served to confidently differentiate clots from adjacent trabeculations.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Pridhvi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yelamanchili
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Oben
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Baysan
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajdev
authors.forename: Marcus L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003199:Computer Systems; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013318:Stroke Volume; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology