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.
Sato
Yuichi
Y
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
Matsumoto
Naoya
N
Matsuo
Shinro
S
Sakai
Yoshitaka
Y
Kunimasa
Taeko
T
Imai
Shinobu
S
Yoda
Shunichi
S
Tani
Shigemasa
S
Kasamaki
Yuji
Y
Takayama
Tadateru
T
Kunimoto
Satoshi
S
Takahashi
Motoichiro
M
Saito
Satoshi
S
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