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European Journal of Echocardiography 2006 7(1):5-6; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2005.10.001
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Copyright © 2005, The European Society of Cardiology

Unsolved issues of left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction

Josef Finsterera,* and Claudia Stöllbergerb

aKrankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Postfach 20, 1180 Vienna, Austria
b2nd Medical Department, Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Juchgasse 25, A-1030 Vienna, Austria

Received 6 June 2005; .

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 71165 92085; fax: +43 1 4781711. duarte@aonmail.at

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With interest we read the article by Aras et al. on a 78-year old woman with isolated left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) but preserved systolic function.1 The paper raises the following concerns.

What is meant by the term "isolated"? If "isolated" means without any cardiac symptoms or signs or abnormal instrumental investigations, LVHT of the presented patient was not "isolated". . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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