title: Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium: infrequent because of missed diagnosis?
abstract: Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium is frequently mistaken for other cardiomyopathies. We report a case of a 49-year-old woman admitted to hospital for heart failure and initially given the diagnosis of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In this case, myocardial contrast echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging played a pivotal role in establishing the diagnosis of isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. eperezdavid@gmail.com <eperezdavid@gmail.com>
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Perez-David
authors.forename: Miguel Angel
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Garcia-Fernandez
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gómez-Anta
authors.forename: Jose Juan Gomez
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: de Diego
authors.forename: Jose Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García-Robles
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lafuente
mesh_terms: D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology