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“Rigid body rotation” of the left ventricle in hypoplastic right-heart syndrome: a case from the three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic MAGYAR-Path Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2014

Attila Nemes ,
Kálmán Havasi  and
Tamás Forster
Attila Nemes*
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Kálmán Havasi
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Tamás Forster
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
*
Correspondence to: A. Nemes, MD, PhD, FESC, 2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Center, Medical Faculty, University of Szeged, Korányi fasor 6, P.O. Box 427, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary. Tel: 366 254 5220; Fax: 366 254 4568; E-mail: nemes.attila@med.u-szeged.hu
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Abstract

Left ventricular twist results from the movement of two orthogonally oriented muscular bands of the helical myocardial structure, with a consequent clockwise rotation of the left ventricular base and counterclockwise rotation of the left ventricular apex. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time that left ventricular “rigid body rotation”, the near absence of left ventricular twist in hypoplastic right-heart syndrome, has been demonstrated.

Keywords

Hypoplastic right-heart syndromethree-dimensionalechocardiographyspeckle-trackingleft ventricular rotation
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 2015 , pp. 768 - 772
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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