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===Gross=== | ===Gross=== | ||
Features:<ref name=emedicine1612324>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1612324-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1612324-overview].</ref> | Features:<ref name=emedicine1612324>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1612324-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1612324-overview].</ref> | ||
* | *Right ventricular wall thinning/replacement with fat. † | ||
**Especially fat where fat is ''not'' usually seen - posterior RV wall, RVOT. | **Especially fat where fat is ''not'' usually seen - posterior RV wall, RVOT. | ||
*Septum usually has relative sparing | *Septum usually has relative sparing | ||
**Thus, endomyocardial biopsy is ''not'' reliable. | **Thus, endomyocardial biopsy is ''not'' reliable. | ||
*+/-Aneurysms/dilation. | *+/-Aneurysms/dilation. | ||
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*† May involve the left ventricle.<ref name=pmid23761986>{{cite journal |author=Romero J, Mejia-Lopez E, Manrique C, Lucariello R |title=Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC/D): A Systematic Literature Review |journal=Clin Med Insights Cardiol |volume=7 |issue= |pages=97–114 |year=2013 |pmid=23761986 |pmc=3667685 |doi=10.4137/CMC.S10940 |url=}}</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||