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Complete Atrioventricular Block As the First Manifestation of Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium

2011; Wiley; Volume: 36; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03054.x

1540-8159

Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Daniel Furtado Vidigal, Renata de Carvalho Bicalho Carneiro, WARLEY CRISTIANO DE SOUZA, WALKIRIA MONTEIRO LOPES, Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, E MARIA DO CARMO PEREIRA NUNES,

Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research

Noncompaction of ventricular myocardium (NVM) is a rare cardiomyopathy, most probably caused by disturbances in embryonic morphogenesis of the myocytes, resulting in prominent trabeculations in the ventricular myocardium . Several diagnostic criteria have been proposed by echocardiography, and its association with other heart diseases is common. Its mortality is closely related to ventricular dysfunction, cardiac arrhythmias, and cardioembolic events . We report here a case of occurrence of atrioventricular block with syncope as the clinical manifestation of NVM. A brief review of the literature on morphological features, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment will also be discussed .