[Saw tooth cardiomyopathy: How to better diagnose?]

M T Bailly; T Vasile; E Berthelot; A Abdo; S El Hatimi; P Jourdain; P Assayag

doi:10.1016/j.ancard.2020.07.004

[Saw tooth cardiomyopathy: How to better diagnose?]

Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris). 2022 Apr;71(2):115-117. doi: 10.1016/j.ancard.2020.07.004. Epub 2020 Aug 8.

[Article in French]

Authors

M T Bailly¹, T Vasile², E Berthelot³, A Abdo², S El Hatimi³, P Jourdain³, P Assayag³

Affiliations

¹ Service de cardiologie, hôpital Bicêtre, AP-HP, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Service de radiologie, hôpital Bicêtre, AP-HP, France.
³ Service de cardiologie, hôpital Bicêtre, AP-HP, France.

PMID: 32782066
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancard.2020.07.004

Abstract

With the increasing use of cardiac MRI, several cases were described as "sawtooth cardiomyopathy" or "tiger heart". The pathological aspects of these rare forms of myocardial dysplasia, frequently assimilated to non-compaction of the left ventricle, and its prognostic implications remain unclear. We present a case of "sawtooth cardiomyopathy" in a patient with a transient ischemic attack. This article aims to determine, with the other clinical cases in the literature, the MRI and echocardiography criteria for the diagnosis of this cardiomyopathy. Sawtooth cardiomyopathy is probably under diagnosed and deserves to be better known.

Keywords: CMR Trabeculae; Cardiopathie congénitale; Cardiopathie en dents de scie; Congenital heart disease; IRM cardiaque; Isolated left ventricular noncompaction; Non compaction du ventricule gauche; Saw-tooth cardiomyopathy; Tiger heart; Trabéculation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathies* / diagnostic imaging
Echocardiography
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium* / diagnosis
Magnetic Resonance Imaging