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Morphological and Functional Assessment of the Right Ventricle Using 3D Echocardiography
Published on: October 28, 2020
A rare association of left ventricular diverticulum and noncompaction: continuum of common developmental abnormality?
Yadvinder Singh1, Bhupinder Singh, Shivakumar Bhairappa
1Department of Cardiology, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. dryadvinder@hotmail.com
Abstract:
A previously healthy 16-year-old girl presented with history of fever of 3 months duration without any significant clinical finding on examination. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed moderate pericardial effusion and later diagnosed as tubercular in etiology. Besides, TTE also showed an incidental finding of large left ventricular (LV) diverticulum in submitral region along the postero-basal segment and left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC). Nonapical LV diverticulum is a rare variant of this uncommon congenital condition and its association with LVNC has not been reported in literature. Patient was discharged on antitubercular therapy for pericardial effusion and advised for 6 monthly follow-up for diverticulum.
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