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Electrophysiological Assessment of Murine Atria with High-Resolution Optical Mapping
Published on: February 22, 2018
[Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, torsades de pointes and sudden death. New concepts]
G Fontaine1, P Aouate, F Fontaliran
1Service de Cardiologie Hôpital Jean Rostand, Ivry-sur-seine.
Abstract:
M cells as well as vortex like reentrant tachycardia could explain the torsade de pointes pattern leading to sudden death at night in a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and saddle-back ST segment elevation in lead V2. The mechanism of the torsade is explained by the two-dimensional structure of the right ventricular free wall reconstructed from paraffin blocks. This case may represent a particular form of Brugada's syndrome and cases of sudden death in young males in South East Asia.
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