PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dean M. Pollock
AU  - Lon W. Castle
AU  - Robert Detrano
AU  - Richard Sterba
TI  - Digital subtraction angiography in the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
DP  - 1985 Dec 21
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 569--571
VI  - 52
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/569.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/569.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Dec 21; 52
AB  - Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is a pathologic entity consisting of abnormal structure and function of the right ventricular myocardium, causing arrhythmias and heart failure. The diagnosis is based on electrocardiographic or electrophysiologic evidence that the arrhythmia arises in the right ventricle, as well as angiographic evidence of abnormal right ventricular contraction. The authors used intravenous digital subtraction techniques in making this diagnosis in 2 patients and suggest the use of these techniques for patients with right ventricular tachycardia to rule out ARVD.