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- Left ventricular non-compaction is a rare congenital heart disease typically diagnosed using two-dimensional echocardiography, but three-dimensional echocardiography has recently become a helpful clinical tool.
- In a case study from Japan, two patients (an 84-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man) were diagnosed with this condition through various imaging techniques, showing a distinctive 'honeycomb appearance' of the heart's trabecular meshwork.
- Three-dimensional echocardiography provides improved visualization of the left ventricle's structure, offering en-face views that enhance understanding and assessment beyond what two-dimensional echocardiography can achieve.
Article Abstract
Introduction: Left ventricular non-compaction is a rare congenital heart disease, and is most commonly diagnosed via two-dimensional echocardiography according to echocardiographic criteria. Recently, transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography has become available in the clinical setting.
Case Presentation: We present two isolated cases of left ventricular non-compaction from Japan (in an 84-year-old woman and 47-year-old man) that were confirmed by two-dimensional echocardiography, contrast-enhanced two-dimensional echocardiography, three-dimensional echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. In both cases, three-dimensional echocardiography successfully demonstrated the trabecular meshwork of the left ventricle, referred to as a 'honeycomb appearance'.
Conclusions: Three-dimensional echocardiography has the advantage of visualizing an en-face view of the trabecular meshwork, which is not possible with two-dimensional echocardiography. We further emphasize the clinical utility of three-dimensional echocardiography, which is not limited to just the observation of the trabeculations and inter-trabecular recesses, but can also visualize the trabecular meshwork with a 'honeycomb appearance'.
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