title: Left ventricular noncompaction/hypertrabeculation cardiomyopathy.
abstract: Two patients with the fascinating disorder of left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy are reported and illustrated echocardiographically. A review of this increasingly recognized cardiomyopathy that may be accompanied by considerable morbidity and mortality, has been done.
authors.affiliation: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, USA.
authors.forename: Charles D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D011379:Prognosis; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications*; D014944:World Health Organization