Noncompaction in Healthy Subjects, Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Neuromuscular Disorders Is the Same Entity

Claudia Stollberger; Josef Finsterer

doi:10.5812/ijp.511

Noncompaction in Healthy Subjects, Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Neuromuscular Disorders Is the Same Entity

authors:

Claudia Stollberger ^{1
, *} , Josef Finsterer ¹

1 Medical Department With Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Vienna, Austria

Iranian Journal of Pediatrics: Vol.25, issue 2

published online: April 18, 2015

article type: Letter

received: May 14, 2014

accepted: January 16, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/ijp.511

how to cite: Stollberger C, Finsterer J. Noncompaction in Healthy Subjects, Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Neuromuscular Disorders Is the Same Entity. Iran J Pediatr. 2015;25(2): -. https://doi.org/10.5812/ijp.511.

Keywords

Cardiomyopathies Child Echocardiography Left Ventricles

Footnote

Authors’ Contributions:Claudia Stollberger: concept, design, acquisition of data, data analysis/interpretation, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision of the manuscript and approval of the article; Josef Finsterer: concept, acquisition of data, data analysis/interpretation and critical revision of the manuscript and approval of the article.

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