Key result
TEE identifies isolated LVNC in a patient misdiagnosed for over 20 years.
Why the study?
Isolated left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy is a recently described condition often misdiagnosed due to limited literature and low physician awareness.
Transesophageal echocardiography can be used to correctly diagnose isolated left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy, a condition that is often misdiagnosed.
TEE may aid LVNC diagnosis after misdiagnosis when TTE is inconclusive; leaves open need for validation studies.
Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium has often been misdiagnosed as other cardiomyopathies because it is a relatively recently described cardiomyopathy with literature limited to case reports and case series and little awareness among physicians. We are reporting a case of isolated left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy that was misdiagnosed for over two decades.
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Bhat et al. (2011) studied this question. Transesophageal echocardiography successfully identified isolated left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy in a patient who had been misdiagnosed for over two decades.
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