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Pathophysiology of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
Nature reviews. Cardiology - 29 Nov 2011
Basso Cristina, Bauce Barbara, Corrado Domenico, Thiene Gaetano
Abstract excerpt
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder of heart muscle that is associated with ventricular arrhythmias and risk of sudden cardiac death, particularly in the young and athletes. Mutations in five genes that encode major components of the desmosomes, namely junction plakoglobin, desmoplakin, plakophilin-2, desmoglein-2, and desmocollin-2, have been identified in...
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