Persisting myocardial sinusoids of both ventricles as an isolated anomaly: echocardiographic, angiographic, and pathologic anatomical findings

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 1986;9(3):127-31. doi: 10.1007/BF02577920.

Abstract

The persistence of myocardial sinusoids in both ventricles as an isolated anomaly is described. A 21-year-old patient had progressive heart failure considered as cardiomyopathy of obscure etiology. Two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated channel-like structures in the thickened myocardium of both hypokinetic ventricles. Angiography showed a honeycomblike inner contour in both ventricles. Autopsy proved the diagnosis of persistent sinusoids in a thickened myocardium.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Angiocardiography
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cineangiography
  • Echocardiography
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / pathology*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardium / pathology*