PMC3130988_01
Echocardiographic short axis view showing apical segments of left ventricle during end-systole and end-diastole.
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The 2D echocardiogram demonstrated mild thickening of the left ventricular wall in the inferior, posterior, and anterolateral segments of the apex, with a two-layered structure: a compacted epicardial layer and a non-compacted endocardial layer consisting of prominent trabeculations separated by deep intertrabecular recesses communicating, on color Doppler analysis, with the cavity (Figures 1 and 2).
Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (short axis view): the intertrabecular spaces are filled by direct blood flow from the ventricular cavity.
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The 2D echocardiogram demonstrated mild thickening of the left ventricular wall in the inferior, posterior, and anterolateral segments of the apex, with a two-layered structure: a compacted epicardial layer and a non-compacted endocardial layer consisting of prominent trabeculations separated by deep intertrabecular recesses communicating, on color Doppler analysis, with the cavity (Figures 1 and 2).