Sudden death due to arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: A medico-legal case report.
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ABSTRACT
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) is characterized by progressive fibrofatty replacement of the myocardium that predisposes to ventricular tachycardia and sudden death in young individuals and athletes. The prevalence of ARVD/C is estimated as 11000 to 11250 in the general population. Although it is a relatively uncommon cause of sudden cardiac death, it accounts for up to one fifth of sudden cardiac death in people less than 35 years of age. Clinical presentation of ARVD/C usually consists of arrhythmias of right ventricular origin that include premature ventricular beats, sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation that can lead to sudden death. The authors present a case of a 26 year old young male, carpenter by occupation, previously healthy, with sudden death. The internal and external postmortem findings were normal except for mild right ventricular hypertrophy. But histo-pathological examination of heart tissues revealed replacement of myocardial tissue with mature fibrofatty tissue. The following medico-legal autopsy case is being reported for its rarity and the importance of histopathology to find out the cause of death.
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Main subject:
Autopsy
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Humans
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Male
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Cause of Death
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Death, Sudden, Cardiac
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Adult
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Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
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Forensic Pathology
Language:
English
Year:
2012
Type:
Article
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