title: 3D echocardiographic imaging of a septal myocardial cleft in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
abstract: Myocardial clefts are defined as narrow, deep blood-filled invaginations within the left ventricular myocardium. They occur in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with different frequency and represent a distinctive morphological expression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Although two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography is able to detect myocardial clefts in some cases, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging with its high spatial resolution can detect myocardial clefts not visualized with echocardiography. In this report, we represent multimodality imaging of a septal myocardial cleft in a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kumral
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cagli
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zehra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Golbasi
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Turak
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozcan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozeke
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Firdevs Aysenur
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Ekizler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans
keywords: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; myocardial wall; three-dimensional echocardiography