title: Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and in their pedigrees.
abstract: Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic evaluations in 18 patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and 29 family members (25 males and 25 females from 7 pedigrees) aged 5 to 64 years (mean +/- 1 SD 30 +/- 16) revealed that 5 of 28 ARVC family members (17%) fulfilled ARVC Task Force criteria. Indexes on late potentials of the signal-averaged electrocardiogram had a significant linear correlation with the age of patients with ARVC and of family members with echocardiographic wall motion abnormality.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuchihashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yuda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimamoto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019571:Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D010375:Pedigree; D011379:Prognosis