Catastrophic stroke in a patient with left ventricular non-compaction

Abstract

We present the case of a 32-year-old man who presented with a remote history of chest pain and was diagnosed with non-compaction cardiomyopathy on echocardiography. On presentation, he was relatively asymptomatic with normal cardiac function. Unfortunately, he presented 1 year later with a catastrophic embolic stroke.

Keywords

• 2D echocardiography
• noncompaction
• magnetic resonance imaging