title: A heart within the heart: double-chambered left ventricle.
abstract: We describe a rare congenital anomaly in a 49-year-old woman who presented with palpitations and slightly reduced exercise capacity. A double-chambered left ventricle was suspected on echocardiography and confirmed by cardiac computed tomography scanning, cardiac magnet resonance imaging, and invasive angiography.
authors.affiliation: II Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Coburg, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Wuerzburg, Ketschendorfer Str 33, DE-96450 Coburg, Germany. olebreithardt@gmx.de
authors.forename: Ole A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Breithardt
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ropers
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seeliger
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: von Erffa
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garlichs
authors.forename: Werner G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Achenbach
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D004452:Echocardiography; D017079:Exercise Tolerance; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed