title: A Nine-Year-Old Girl With Left Ventricle Non-Compaction and Skin Lesions (Carvajal Syndrome).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD), a cardiomyopathy characterized by fibrofatty degeneration of the myocardium with progressive dysfunction, electrical instability, and sudden death, occurs in approximately 1 in 5000 people in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a nine-year-old girl complaining of dyspnea, easy fatigability and skin lesions. She had a history of an occasional epistaxis and weakness since 20 days before her admission, accompanied by the symptoms and signs of common cold, specially cough, during the last two days.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This case does confirm that dilated cardiomyopathy's spectrum is wider than ever known and that like what happened at the congress of Boston in 2006, a more comprehensive approach to its genetic types needs to be done.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Bahrami Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Behzad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mohammadpour Ahranjani
authors.affiliation: Songhor Health Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Poria
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moradi
authors.affiliation: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shadab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nazari
authors.affiliation: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Sareh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Farshadfar
keywords: Heart Failure; Left Ventricular; Skin Lesions