Left ventricular noncompaction in a patient with fabry disease: Overdiagnosis, morphological manifestation of fabry disease or two unrelated rare conditions in the same patient?

Cardiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 155-159

  Azevedo, Olga ^a   Gaspar, Paulo ^b   Sá Miranda, Clara ^b   Cunha, Damião ^c   Medeiros, Rosa ^a   Lourenço, António ^a  

^a Cardiology Department   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL PEDRO HISPANO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Fabry disease; Genetics; Noncompaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FABRY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FABRY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISOLATED NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054763496     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330924     Document Type: Article

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