Cardiac MR findings and potential diagnostic pitfalls in patients evaluated for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

ABSTRACT: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a familial cardiomyopathy characterized by fibrofatty replacement of the myocardium, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular dysfunction that affects primarily the right ventricle (RV). This disease is not common but can be seen more frequently in young adults, and clinical manifestations range from no symptoms to lethal arrhythmia and sudden death. The diagnosis of ARVC is challenging and is based on the recently revised international task force criteria. Given the strengths of cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for depicting the RV, this modality plays an important role in the diagnosis of ARVC. Functional and structural abnormalities of the RV depicted with cardiac MR imaging constitute major and minor criteria in the revis

SUBMITTER: Rastegar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550031 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature