Article
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
Heart failure clinics - 1 Apr 2010
Ellinor Patrick T, MacRae Calum A, Thierfelder Ludwig
Abstract excerpt
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) originally emerged as a pathologic diagnosis based on distinctive autopsy findings in cases of premature sudden death. Subsequently these characteristic pathologic features were associated with ventricular tachycardia of right ventricular origin and syncope. ARVC is a rare condition and our understanding of the disorder has been confounded by multiple small,...
Topics
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Desmosomes
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Disease Progression
- Heart Ventricles
- Humans
- Mutation
- Risk Factors