title: A very rare case of coexistence of ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy, myocardial bridging and atherosclerosis.
abstract: Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium is a rare congenital heart disease, presumably caused by the intrauterine arrest of the myocardial compaction process at the beginning of fetal development. It could remain asymptomatic or manifest with congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and systemic thromboemboli. Here we report a 55-year-old man who was admitted to hospital with chest pain and dyspnea, whose further evaluation revealed left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy accompanying myocardial bridging and stenosis of the right coronary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Foundation University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Erdogan
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Foundation University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akkaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Foundation University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bacaksiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Foundation University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Abdurrahman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tasal
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Foundation University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Emrah
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sevgili
keywords: atherosclerosis; myocardial bridging; ventricular noncompaction