Authors: Umang Gupta Pooja Makhija
Publish Date: 2017/01/21
Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 681-690
Abstract
Left ventricular noncompaction is a rare form of cardiomyopathy which results from multiple trabeculations in the left ventricular myocardium The clinical presentation is highly variable and spectrum includes asymptomatic patients diagnosed during family screening on one end to patients with depressed systolic function heart failure thromboembolic complications and cardiac arrhythmias on the other Kim et al in J Am Coll Cardiol 53 2009 2009 Further the progression of the condition is highly variable Hence these patients require close followup and management for each patient needs to be individualized and periodically reevaluated Here we present a series of five cases that have been followed in our practice and present our experience A literature review of this rare form of congenital cardiomyopathy is also presentedSince this is a retrospective case review consent was not obtained and no research performed on human or animal subjects Also no data that would help identify the patients have been used in the case series and the data related to patient identity have been stored on a separate unlinked file on a password protected computer kept securely by the investigator
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