title: [Non-compaction of the left ventricle - not only in children].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kliniczny Oddział Kardiologii, Szpital Bielański, 01-809 Warszawa. borys@bielanski.med.pl
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borys
authors.forename: Grazyna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Snopek
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sadowski
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dabrowski
mesh_terms: 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