TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - LEFT VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION A1 - Arbustini, Eloisa A1 - Serio, Alessandra A1 - Favalli, Valentina A1 - Narula, Nupoor A1 - Grasso, Maurizia A2 - Fuster, Valentin A2 - Harrington, Robert A. A2 - Narula, Jagat A2 - Eapen, Zubin J. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Hurst's The Heart, 14e AB - Cardiac trabecular anatomy is characterized by extreme individual and population variability that corresponds to a sort of individual cardioprinting. In normal hearts, trabeculae undergo continuous and quantifiable geometric changes during the cardiac cycle; they actively provide mechanical leverage during early systolic ejection through contraction, and relaxation occurs during late diastole at larger ventricular volumes.1 In the left ventricle, trabeculae can be minimally represented or may be so numerous and prominent that they confer a “spongy” appearance to the endocardial surface of the ventricles. The latter corresponds to the term left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/10 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1161732945 ER -