Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy: Lessons from the past to explain a diagnostic conundrum

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1128-1130

  Paterick, Timothy E ^a   Tajik, A Jamil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84907605934     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.06.015     Document Type: Letter

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