End-stage Cardiac Failure Caused by Isolated Ventricular Non-compaction: Cardiac Transplantation in a 5-Year-Old Boy

Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction: Unusual Cause of Decompensated Heart Failure and Indication of Heart Transplantation in the Early Infancy - Case Report and Literature Review

“…End-stage heart failure has been managed with heart transplantation, as evidenced in our case. A review of the literature identified only 9 patients with IVNC who underwent cardiac transplantation 8, 27. This infant is the youngest child reported with IVNC and clinical signs of decompensated heart failure to have been successfully treated with heart transplantation.…”