[Arrhythmogenic dysplasia of the right ventricle: a cause of ventricular tachycardia in childhood].
We describe a 9-year old patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. The patient presented with sustained ventricular tachycardia in an apparently normal heart. The diagnosis was suspected by the electrocardiographic morphology of the tachycardia and definitive diagnosis was made by right ventricular angiogram, echocardiogram and the ventricular endomyocardial biopsy findings (replacement of myocardial by adipose tissue and fibrosis). We believe that this condition may be a common etiology of ventricular tachycardia with left bundle branch block conduction pattern in children with otherwise normal hearts.
García y Otero
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Institute Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México, D.F.
Iturralde
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Vázquez Antona
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Zabal
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Vargas
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López Valle
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Buendía Hernández
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D000273:Adipose Tissue; D001706:Biopsy; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005355:Fibrosis; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*
Displasia arritmogénica del ventrículo derecho: una causa de taquicardia ventricular en edad pediátrica.