A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is characterized by recurrent coma, ventricular tachycardias and the replacement of the myocardium with fatty and fibrous tissue. We described a 42-year-old female patient without clinical arrhythmias which was diagnosed as ARVC by magnetic reso...
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pubmed-34878712012-11-03 A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias Wei, Jia Tang, Jiarong Xia, Liming Chen, Xinshan Wang, Dao Wen Case Report Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is characterized by recurrent coma, ventricular tachycardias and the replacement of the myocardium with fatty and fibrous tissue. We described a 42-year-old female patient without clinical arrhythmias which was diagnosed as ARVC by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but the transvenous endomyocardial biopsy was not specific. The patient received heart transplantation due to her refractory heart failure and the pathology of explanted heart demonstrated typical replacement of fatty and fibrous tissue and piles of infiltrated lymphocytes in myocardial tissue. It is concluded that ARVC might not have any arrhythmias and inflammatory process may be involved in the mechanism of ARVC. BioMed Central 2012-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3487871/ /pubmed/22691170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-7-67 Text en Copyright ©2012 Wei et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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case of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias |
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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is characterized by recurrent coma, ventricular tachycardias and the replacement of the myocardium with fatty and fibrous tissue. We described a 42-year-old female patient without clinical arrhythmias which was diagnosed as ARVC by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but the transvenous endomyocardial biopsy was not specific. The patient received heart transplantation due to her refractory heart failure and the pathology of explanted heart demonstrated typical replacement of fatty and fibrous tissue and piles of infiltrated lymphocytes in myocardial tissue. It is concluded that ARVC might not have any arrhythmias and inflammatory process may be involved in the mechanism of ARVC. |
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