From: Echocardiography in the diagnosis left ventricular noncompaction
Chin Criteria (1990) | Jennni Criteria (1999) |
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Absence of any other coexisting cardiac structural abnormality | Absence of any other coexisting cardiac structural abnormality |
Numerous, excessively prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses | Numerous, excessively prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses |
Views: parasternal long axis, subxyphoid, and apical | Views: parasternal short axis, and apical |
Focus on depth of recesses | Focus on a 2-layer structure |
Measured in end-diastole | Measured in end-systole |
Ratio of distance from the epicardial surface to the trough of the trabecular recesses and distance from the epicardial surface to peak of trabeculation ≤ 0.5 | Ratio of thick noncompacted layer to thin compacted ≥ 2 Perfused intertrabecular recesses suplied by intraventricular blood on color Doppler analysis |