Why the study?
Left ventricular noncompaction poses diagnostic challenges in adulthood with advanced heart failure, and diagnostic tools are lacking to aid early diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries.
Can echocardiography effectively diagnose left ventricular noncompaction in a resource-constrained setting where advanced imaging is limited?
Can echocardiography effectively diagnose left ventricular noncompaction in a resource-constrained setting where advanced imaging is limited?
Diligent application of echocardiographic diagnostic criteria allows for accurate identification of left ventricular noncompaction in low-to-middle income countries where cardiac MRI is inaccessible or unaffordable.
Echocardiography may aid LVNC diagnosis in LMICs; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Left ventricular non compaction is a genetic cardiomyopathy with a high occurence in individuals of African ancestry and may present in adulthood with diagnostic challenges when there is advanced heart failure. Echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging have mostly been used in making a diagnosis. However, there is a lack of these diagnostic tools required to aid in early diagnosis in Low and Middle Income Countries. The potential usefulness of echocardiography in this population is the focus of this case presentation.
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