title: A combination of left ventricular noncompaction and double orifice mitral valve.
abstract: A 24-year-old woman admitted with mild chest distress associated with activity without chest complaint for twenty days. Two orifices were visible at the level of the mitral valve with a transthoracic short-axis view of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiography. The left ventricle was mildly dilatated and the left ventricular wall was thickened, especially at the apex and anterolateral wall, and appeared sponge-like. There were numerous, excessively prominent trabeculations associated with intertrabecular recesses. Although the coexistence of NVM and DOMV could be a coincidence, we believe that both defects were probably caused by a developmental arrest of the left ventricular myocardium in the present case.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China. wangxx0571@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Xing-Xiang
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ze-Zhou
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*