Reversible Left Ventricular Trabeculations in Pregnancy

Reversible Left Ventricular Trabeculations in Pregnancy: Is This Sufficient to Make the Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Noncompaction? Running title: Reimold; Pregnancy and Trabeculations

Reversible left ventricular trabeculations in pregnancy: is this sufficient to make the diagnosis of left ventricular noncompaction?

L eft ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is a disorder characterized by significant ventricular tra-beculations on cardiovascular imaging. The most common echocardiographic criteria used to define the disorder are the Jenni et al 1 and Chin et al 2 criteria. These criteria were developed after the observation that some patients, primarily children, had cardiomyopathies characterize...

Reversible de novo left ventricular trabeculations in pregnant women: implications for the diagnosis of left ventricular noncompaction in low-risk populations.

BACKGROUND Patients with heart failure and chronic anemia frequently demonstrate left ventricular (LV) trabeculations, which may be compatible with the diagnosis of LV noncompaction. We used the pregnancy model, which is characterized by a reversible increase in cardiac preload and other changes in cardiac function, to assess the development of de novo LV trabeculations in women with morphologi...

Reversible left ventricular dysfunction in suicidal hanging.

Acute and rapidly reversible left ventricular dysfunction may be triggered by various psychological and physical insults. This entity is now well known as stress cardiomyopathy or Takotsubu cardiomyopathy. Suicidal hanging involves intense emotional outburst and the act of hanging is an extreme physical stress. We report a case of rapidly reversible left ventricular dysfunction following attemp...

Left ventricular function during pregnancy.

As emphasized by Watkins et al.,9 the variability in plasma renin activity in CHF is explained by the degree of compensation in maintaining arterial pressure and plasma volume; the latter measurement was not obtained in the Curtiss or Gavras study. The observations in these two recent studies reaffirm the importance of the RAA system in maintaining systemic vascular resistance (SVR) in CHF. Cur...