Atrial parasystole in left ventricular noncompaction: a morphofunctional study by echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging

J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2008 Mar;9(3):285-8. doi: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3282058bb8.

Abstract

Isolated left ventricular noncompaction is a recently recognized age-independent cardiac genetic disorder caused by heterogeneous defects in endo-myocardial morphogenesis. Transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance are the most reliable techniques to make a diagnosis of the disease, noninvasively. Arrhythmic atrial and ventricular disorders have been reported in 20-50% of these patients. The morphological and functional findings are described in a young woman in whom the exclusive clinical sign of isolated ventricular noncompaction was an atrial parasystole.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography, Doppler / methods*
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory
  • Female
  • Heart Atria
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / complications*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnosis
  • Heart Ventricles / abnormalities*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Parasystole / diagnosis*
  • Parasystole / etiology
  • Parasystole / physiopathology