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Differential diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: phenocopies versus disease variants.
Minerva medica - 1 Apr 2021
Cipriani Alberto, Perazzolo Marra Martina, Bariani Riccardo, Mattesi Giulia, Vio Riccardo, Bettella Natascia, DE Lazzari Manuel, Motta Raffaella, Bauce Barbara, Zorzi Alessandro, Corrado Domenico
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Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a genetic heart muscle disease caused by mutations of desmosomal genes in about 50% of patients. Affected patients may have defective non-desmosomal genes. The ACM phenotype may occur in other genetic cardiomyopathies, cardio-cutaneous syndromes or neuromuscular disorders. A sizeable proportion of patients have non-genetic diseases with clinical features resembling ACM...
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