Normal left ventricular twist in patients with non-compaction cardiomyopathy, or in normal subjects with hypertrabeculation?

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Pacileo et al. ,1 recently published in the European Journal of Echocardiography. The authors described normal left ventricular (LV) twist in 14 patients with non-compaction cardiomyopathy (NCCM). This finding is in sharp contrast to severely impaired LV twist described in larger series by us2,3 and others.4 Also, an abnormal LV motion pattern called ‘rigid body …