This review highlights the characteristic electrocardiographic and echocardiographic features, magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis, and current treatment options for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
This review highlights the importance of recognizing characteristic ECG and imaging features of ARVD to prevent sudden cardiac death in young patients.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is an inherited, progressive condition. Characterised by fatty infiltration of the right ventricle, it frequently results in life threatening cardiac arrhythmias, and is one of the important causes of sudden cardiac death in the young. There are characteristic electrocardiographic and echocardiographic features that all physicians need to be aware of if we are to reduce these occurrences of premature death. Diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging is discussed along with current treatment options.
Fisher et al. (2000) conducted a review in Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. This review highlights the characteristic electrocardiographic and echocardiographic features, magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis, and current treatment options for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.