Live/real time three-dimensional echocardiographic demonstration of left ventricular noncompaction and thrombi.
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.
Yelamanchili
Pridhvi
P
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Patel
Vinod
V
Baysan
Oben
O
Singh
Anurag
A
Duncan
Kurt
K
Rajdev
Sanjay
S
Brown
Marcus L
ML
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