[Non-compaction of the left ventricle - not only in children].
A case of a 44-year-old woman with left ventricular non-compaction which manifested in adulthood as dyspnea, fatique and NYHA class III heart failure, is described. She received treatment typical for heart failure and was offered heart transplantation and cardioverter-defibrillator implantation which she refused. Unfortunately, she died suddenly three months after the diagnosis was established.
Borys
Marcin
M
Kliniczny Oddział Kardiologii, Szpital Bielański, 01-809 Warszawa. borys@bielanski.med.pl
Snopek
Grazyna
G
Sadowski
Krzysztof
K
Dabrowski
Marek
M
D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology