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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with left ventricular involvement: a novel splice site mutation in the DSG2 gene.
Cardiology - 1 Jan 2015
Pereira Fernandes Marina, Azevedo Olga, Pereira Vitor, Calvo Lucy, Lourenço António
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We report the case of a 37-year-old male patient admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit for acute pulmonary edema. He had a history of excessive alcoholic consumption and had had a viral syndrome in the preceding 10 days. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed severe biventricular dysfunction, mild dilatation of the left heart chambers, and severe dilatation of the right chambers. Nonsustained ventricular...
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