Article
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia on the basis of the revised diagnostic criteria in affected families with desmosomal mutations.
European heart journal - 1 May 2011
Protonotarios Nikos, Anastasakis Aris, Antoniades Loizos, Chlouverakis Gregory, Syrris Petros, Basso Cristina, Asimaki Angeliki, Theopistou Artemisia, Stefanadis Christodoulos, Thiene Gaetano, McKenna William J, Tsatsopoulou Adalena
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To evaluate arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) in affected families with desmosome mutations on the basis of the recently revised Task Force Criteria (TFC). METHODS AND RESULTS: One hundred and three consecutive carriers of pathogenic desmosome mutations and 102 mutation-negative relatives belonging to 22 families with dominant and 14 families with recessive ARVC/D were...
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