A Commentary on "A Novel Imaging Finding in Williams Syndrome: The Coral Sign"

Abstract

© 2019 Burt J. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. We recently published “A Novel Imaging Finding in Williams Syndrome: The Coral Sign” in Pediatric Radiology. In this publication, we described a patient with Williams-Beuren Syndrome who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging after presenting with dizziness. Initially, the patient underwent echocardiography, which showed an unusual and abnormal appearance of the interventricular septum. Subsequent CMR further clarified the findings by showing septal thickening, thickened muscular trabeculations and linear bands of myocardium crossing the ventricle. This constellation of findings produced an image which resembled “coral” found on the ocean floor. This had not been previously described in the literature, and we declared this finding “the coral sign”1.