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Sudden death with circumferential subepicardial fibrofatty replacement: left-sided arrhythmogenic ventricular cardiomyopathy.
The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology - 1 Jun 2009
Mackey-Bojack Shannon M, Roe Susan J, Titus Jack L
Abstract excerpt
We report 5 cases of sudden cardiac death, with similar cardiac findings. All 5 cases had circumferential left ventricular subepicardial fibrofatty replacement of the myocardium, similar to the histologic features of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). In these cases, the findings were predominantly in the left ventricle with minimal or no involvement of the right ventricle. Four of the 5...
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