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Archivos de cardiología de México
On-line version ISSN 1665-1731Print version ISSN 1405-9940
Abstract
CANALE, Jesús; CORTES LAWRENZ, Jorge and MORENO VALENZUELA, Francisco Germán. Spongy cardiomyopathy in an elderly woman, echocardiographic description. Arch. Cardiol. Méx. [online]. 2005, vol.75, n.2, pp.184-187. ISSN 1665-1731.
Isolated left ventricular noncompaction, also known as spongy myocardium or spongy cardiomyopathy, is a recently described congenital disease caused by an arrest in the left ventricular myocardial embriogenesis that makes the ventricular wall to persist thickened with multiple trabecular formations and deep sinusoidal recesses. It is clinically characterized by heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia and systemic embolic events. Most of the affected subjects are detected during childhood or adolescence, others in the adult life but very few elderly patients have been reported in the worldwide medical literature. We here report the case of a 75-year-old woman that is one of the oldest patients ever reported, whose clinical picture and echocardiographic findings are typical of this modality of cardiomyopathy. We do comments on this case in regard to the most relevant facts that appear in the limited medical literature about this interesting disease. (Arch Cardiol Mex 2005; 75: 184-187
Keywords : Spongy cardiomyopathy; Isolated left ventricular noncompaction.