A heart within the heart: double-chambered left ventricle.
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.
Breithardt
Ole A
OA
II Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Coburg, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Wuerzburg, Ketschendorfer Str 33, DE-96450 Coburg, Germany. olebreithardt@gmx.de
Ropers
Dieter
D
Seeliger
Theresa
T
Schmid
Axel
A
von Erffa
Johannes
J
Garlichs
Christoph
C
Daniel
Werner G
WG
Achenbach
Stephan
S
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