Incidentally Detected Myocardial Cleft: Cardiac Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings

Abstract

Myocardial clefts are congenital anomalies, usually localized in the basal inferior wall of the left ventricle and mid-apical segments of the interventricular septum. The patients with genetic mutations related to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy showed significant elevation in the incidence of myocardial cleft. Also there is a significant correlation between the myocardial clefts and the carriers of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy gene mutations without clinical signs . Magnetic resonance imaging allows us to diagnose the myocardial clefts of the healthy individuals as well as the patients and closely follow up for clinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Here we present the cardiac computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings of a case with myocardial cleft. [Med-Science 2016; 5(1.000): 280-3]

Keywords

• myocardial cleft
• magnetic resonance imaging
• hypertrophic cardiomyopathy