Authors
Gherardo Finocchiaro, Eleonora Moccia, Stathis Papatheodorou, Chris Miles, Abbas Zaidi, Elijah Behr, Nicholas Bunce, Lisa Anderson, Sanjay Sharma, Ahmed Merghani, Michael Papadakis
Publication date
2019/5/1
Source
Heart
Volume
105
Issue
Suppl 6
Pages
A107-A108
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
Description
Background
The diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is often challenging and structural abnormalities typical of the disease may overlap with changes reflective of cardiac adaptation to exercise. The aim of the study was to assess the performance of the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) 2010 Task Force Criteria (TFC) in a cohort of patients with definite diagnosis of ARVC and define the overlap with a cohort of highly trained athletes of similar age and sex.
Methods
We compared the CMR features of 43 patients (mean age 49±17 years, 49% males, 32 (74%) genotyped) with a definite diagnosis of ARVC according to the revised TFC to 97 (mean age 45±16 years, 61% males) highly-trained athletes of similar age and sex, where cardiac disease was excluded after comprehensive work-up.
Results
The CMR was abnormal in 37 (86%) patients. The RV was affected in isolation in 17 …
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