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Surgical repair of left ventricular noncompaction in a patient with a novel mutation of the myosin heavy chain 7 gene.
The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine - 1 Dec 2012
Uchiyama Takamichi, Yoshimura Ken, Kaneko Kazunari, Nemoto Shintaro, Ichida Fukiko, Hata Yukiko, Nishida Naoki
Abstract excerpt
Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) represents arrest of the normal myocardial compaction process and results in the persistence of multiple prominent ventricular trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. LVNC can be classified into 2 forms: isolated LVNC in the absence of other cardiac anomalies and non-isolated LVNC associated with congenital heart disease. The clinical presentation and the natural...
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