Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope

Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a relatively rare myocardial disorder which is characterized by trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses within the left ventricle. LVNC is often asymptomatic but may present with heart failure, arrhythmias, or systemic thromboembolism. Uncommonly, pa...

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Autores principales: Ojemolon, Pius E, Evbayekha, Endurance O, Odion, Jesse, Bello, Jeremiah, Shaka, Hafeez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909328
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19409
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author Ojemolon, Pius E
Evbayekha, Endurance O
Odion, Jesse
Bello, Jeremiah
Shaka, Hafeez
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description Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a relatively rare myocardial disorder which is characterized by trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses within the left ventricle. LVNC is often asymptomatic but may present with heart failure, arrhythmias, or systemic thromboembolism. Uncommonly, patients with LVNC can present with syncope. In this article, we report one such presentation of this rare medical condition.
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spelling pubmed-86599912021-12-13 Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope Ojemolon, Pius E Evbayekha, Endurance O Odion, Jesse Bello, Jeremiah Shaka, Hafeez Cureus Cardiology Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a relatively rare myocardial disorder which is characterized by trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses within the left ventricle. LVNC is often asymptomatic but may present with heart failure, arrhythmias, or systemic thromboembolism. Uncommonly, patients with LVNC can present with syncope. In this article, we report one such presentation of this rare medical condition. Cureus 2021-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8659991/ /pubmed/34909328 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19409 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ojemolon et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope
title Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope
title_full Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope
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title_short Left Ventricular Noncompaction as a Rare Cause of Syncope
title_sort left ventricular noncompaction as a rare cause of syncope
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909328
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19409
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