Comparison between electroanatomic and pathologic findings in a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia treated with orthotopic cardiac transplant

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 828-831

  Avella, Andrea ^a   d'Amati, Giulia ^b   Zachara, Elisabetta ^a   Musumeci, Francesco ^a   Tondo, Claudio ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Biopsy; Cardiomyopathy; Heart transplant; Mapping; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ELECTROANATOMIC VOLTAGE MAPPING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HISTOLOGY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 77952552003     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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