Isolated non-compaction of the myocardium as a cause of coronary and cerebral embolic events in the same patient.

A 44-year-old woman with a history of smoking and previous cerebral thrombo-embolism presented to the emergency department with prolonged chest pain and ECG changes showing an acute anterior myocardial infarction. She was referred to the cath-lab for primary angioplasty. Coronary angiography showed a thrombotic occlusion at the origin of first diagonal …