title: A patient with abnormalities of the coronary arteries and non-compaction of the left ventricular myocardium resulting in ischaemic heart disease symptoms.
abstract: Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is a rare cardiomyopathy that results from unsettled embryogenesis of myocardium. It is morphologically characterised by the presence of non-compacted, this is hypertrabeculated, myocardium of the left ventricle with deep endocardial recesses. The clinical spectrum of symptoms is very wide - from asymptomatic patients through the cases of heart failure to the patients requiring heart transplantation. The diagnosis is most frequently based on the echocardiography. LVNC is often coexisted with other heart defects and coronary artery abnormalities. We described a case of a 58-year-old man with LVNC and coronary artery anomalies.
authors.affiliation: Chair and Department of Cardiology, School of Health Sciences, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. jdabek@sum.edu.pl.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dąbek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Majewski
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Walkowicz
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gąsior
keywords: cardiomyopathy; coronary artery abnormalities; myocardium; non-compaction