Isolated noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium in an elderly patient

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 964-967

  Sakuma, Masashi ^a   Hayashi, Terumi ^a   Kamishirado, Hirotoshi ^a   Akiya, Kaori ^a   Takayanagi, Kan ^a   Morooka, Shigenori ^a  

^a DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Isolated noncompaction; Myocardial trabeculation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL TRABECULATION; NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 6944233416     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.964     Document Type: Article

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