Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: proposed modification of the task force criteria

FI Marcus, WJ McKenna, D Sherrill, C Basso, B Bauce… - Circulation, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—In 1994, an International Task Force proposed criteria for the clinical
diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) that …

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation: results from the North American Multidisciplinary Study

FI Marcus, W Zareba, H Calkins, JA Towbin, C Basso… - Heart rhythm, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Prior reports on patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular
cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) focused on individuals with advanced forms of the …

Desmosomal molecules in and out of adhering junctions: normal and diseased States of epidermal, cardiac and mesenchymally derived cells

S Pieperhoff, M Barth, S Rickelt… - … research and practice, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Current cell biology textbooks mention only two kinds of cell‐to‐cell adhering junctions
coated with the cytoplasmic plaques: the desmosomes (maculae adhaerentes), anchoring …

Absence of pathognomonic or inflammatory patterns in cardiac biopsies from patients with Brugada syndrome

S Zumhagen, T Spieker, J Rolinck… - Circulation …, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Brugada syndrome (BrS) is characterized by the presence of coved ST-
segment elevations in the right precordial leads (so-called type I ECG) and additional …

Usefulness of India ink artifact in steady‐state free precession pulse sequences for detection and quantification of intramyocardial fat

GD Aquaro, G Todiere, E Strata… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In steady state free precession (SSFP) images acquired with a repetition time/echo
time (TR/TE)≈ 2, fat is surrounded by a black boundary, called “India Ink” artifact. Indian Ink …

Protein LUMA is a cytoplasmic plaque constituent of various epithelial adherens junctions and composite junctions of myocardial intercalated disks: a unifying finding …

WW Franke, Y Dörflinger, C Kuhn, R Zimbelmann… - Cell and tissue …, 2014 - Springer
In a series of recent reports, mutations in the gene encoding a protein called LUMA (or
TMEM43), widely speculated to be a tetraspan transmembrane protein of the nuclear …

Ventricular tachycardia in English bulldogs with localised right ventricular outflow tract enlargement

RA Santilli, LV Bontempi… - Journal of Small Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: To describe the electrocardiographic characteristics of ventricular tachycardia
arising from the right ventricular outflow tract and the particular association between this …

Pathophysiology of sudden cardiac death as demonstrated by molecular pathology of natriuretic peptides in the myocardium

JH Chen, T Michiue, T Ishikawa, H Maeda - Forensic science international, 2012 - Elsevier
Various heart diseases present with sudden death; however, it is difficult to interpret the
severity of or difference in respective preexisting and terminal cardiac dysfunction based on …

Outflow tract segmental arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in an English Bulldog

RA Santilli, LV Bontempi, M Perego, L Fornai… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2009 - Elsevier
A 5-year-old English Bulldog was presented for acute onset of syncope and fatigue caused
by sustained ventricular tachycardia with left bundle block morphology and inferior axis. This …

Fat in left ventricular myocardium assessed by steady-state free precession pulse sequences

GD Aquaro, G Nucifora, L Pederzoli, E Strata… - … International Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Intramyocardial fat can be observed in different pathologic processes including
arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and in old myocardial infarction …