Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
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D Fatkin1, J Hickie, C Thorburn
1Department of Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 23-year-old man presented with recurrent exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT), complicated by systemic embolisation. Catecholamine--sensitive VT was reproduced on exercise testing and programmed electrical stimulation, displaying features suggestive of enhanced automaticity as well as re-entry. Both 2D-echocardiography and gated heart pool scan showed localised dyskinetic bulging in the right ventricle. A diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia was made. This condition should be excluded in all young patients with otherwise unexplained ventricular arrhythmias.