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01-02-2007 | Case Report

Left ventricular noncompaction in an infant: use of non-ECG-gated cardiac CT

Authors: Hyun Woo Goo, In-Sook Park

Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Issue 2/2007

Abstract

We report an infant who had left ventricular dysfunction of unknown etiology and was diagnosed with left ventricular noncompaction by non-ECG-gated cardiac CT. This relatively rare diagnosis, an unclassified cardiomyopathy, was confirmed by retrospective review of echocardiography on which the diagnosis had initially been missed. As in echocardiography, CT was capable of delineating the characteristic two-layered myocardium of the left ventricle with the most severe involvement of the apical segment.

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Title: Left ventricular noncompaction in an infant: use of non-ECG-gated cardiac CT
Authors: Hyun Woo Goo
In-Sook Park
Publication date: 01-02-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Radiology / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0301-0449
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-006-0360-6

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