Right ventricular involvement in a patient with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium.
Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium (INVM) is an unclassified cardiomyopathy and is thought to be due to arrest of myocardial morphogenesis. Although right ventricular involvement is not uncommon, the correct diagnosis is often difficult by echocardiography. In this report, we describe a patient with INVM in whom magnetic resonance imaging was useful to detect right ventricular morphological and functional abnormalities.
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
Yuichi
Y
Sato
Naoya
N
Matsumoto
Shinro
S
Matsuo
Yoshitaka
Y
Sakai
Taeko
T
Kunimasa
Shinobu
S
Imai
Shunichi
S
Yoda
Shigemasa
S
Tani
Yuji
Y
Kasamaki
Tadateru
T
Takayama
Satoshi
S
Kunimoto
Motoichiro
M
Takahashi
Satoshi
S
Saito
D000368:Aged; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology