title: Large recesses associated with left ventricular noncompaction: an unusual presentation of the disease.
abstract: Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) represents an arrest of myocardial morphogenesis, resulting in persistence of multiple prominent ventricular trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. We report a case of a 30-year-old patient who was referred to our hospital due to familial history of cardiomyopathy. The patient underwent transthoracic echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and contrast ventriculography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. All imaging techniques showed the characteristic pattern of noncompaction together with two unusually large recesses in the inferior wall of myocardium. This unusual form of LVNC may have an impact on the clinical course of the disease and may require anticoagulation therapy.
authors.forename: Charalambos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vlachopoulos
authors.forename: Constantina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aggeli
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Synetos
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vrachliotis
authors.forename: Christodoulos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stefanadis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*