Sudden Unexpected Death in Young Adult due to Right Ventricular Dysplasia

This case report illustrates a rare familial cardiomyopathy first reported in the medical literature in 1982 known as right ventricular dysplasia (right ventricular cardiomyopathy). The patient is a young woman with a history of cardiac arrhythmias suspected to be associated with prolapsed mitral va...

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Published in:Journal of forensic sciences 1997-01, Vol.42 (1), p.148-150
Main Author: Lane, CD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aging - pathology
Cardiovascular disease
Case studies
Connective Tissue - pathology
Death, Sudden - etiology
Endocardium - pathology
Female
Forensic Medicine
Forensic pathology
Humans
Incidence
Metoprolol - therapeutic use
Mitral Valve Prolapse - complications
Mitral Valve Prolapse - drug therapy
Mitral Valve Prolapse - epidemiology
Predictive Value of Tests
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - complications
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - epidemiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - pathology
Young adults
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Summary:This case report illustrates a rare familial cardiomyopathy first reported in the medical literature in 1982 known as right ventricular dysplasia (right ventricular cardiomyopathy). The patient is a young woman with a history of cardiac arrhythmias suspected to be associated with prolapsed mitral valve who presented to the Berks County Coroner's office as a sudden unexpected death in a young adult. It is important to recognize the illustrated classic cardiac pathology of this rare entity for clinical management, as an anatomic explanation of cause of sudden death and for the accumulation of statistics to establish frequency, conditions of predisposition, response to therapy and predicted outcome.
ISSN:0022-1198
1556-4029
DOI:10.1520/JFS14086J