title: Living after sudden death: A case report of Naxos disease.
abstract: Naxos disease is a recessive inherited condition with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) and a peculiar cutaneous phenotype (woolly hair and a palmoplantar keratoderma). Woolly hair appears from birth, palmoplantar keratoderma develops during childhood and cardiomyopathy is clinically manifested by adolescence. Patients present with syncope, sustained ventricular tachycardia or sudden death. We report a case of a 14 year old boy from Spain, who was admitted into our emergency room after being resuscitated from cardiac arrest, secondary to malignant ventricular tachycardia that developed while he was playing basketball.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, University Clinic Hospital "Lozano Blesa", Spain.
authors.forename: Jose Alberto Garcia
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Noain
authors.forename: Amparo Cantin
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Golet
authors.forename: Jorge Navarro
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Calzada
authors.forename: Ascension Muñoz
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mellado
authors.forename: Julian Mozota
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Duarte
keywords: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia; Naxos disease; palmoplantar keratoderma; sudden death; woolly hair
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