title: Ventricular noncompaction: Over or under diagnosis?
abstract: Ventricular noncompaction (VNC) describes a cardiomyopathy characterized by excessive myocardial trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. Detection rates are increasingly rising and the frequency of NVC has changed from a disease that is thought to be rare to that described as 'relatively common'. However, there had been a number of un-answered questions regarding the clinical and echocardiographic features of VNC. In this review we discuss the frequency of VNC and emphasize its distinctive clinical features and associations.
authors: University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, P.O. Box 102, Khartoum, Sudan.
authors: Sulafa K M
authors: SK
authors: Ali
keywords: Cardiomyopathy; Noncompaction
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