Right Ventricular Fatty Infiltration With an Abnormal ECG

Natalija Odanovic; Hamid R Mojibian; Lawrence H Young

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.11.017

Right Ventricular Fatty Infiltration With an Abnormal ECG

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Jan 13;3(2):314-318. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.11.017. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Natalija Odanovic¹, Hamid R Mojibian², Lawrence H Young¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
² Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Abstract

Two middle-aged women had evidence suggesting right ventricular hypertrophy on routine electrocardiograms. Their echocardiograms showed right ventricular thickening and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed right ventricular fatty infiltration. Neither patient fulfilled the criteria for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and both had a benign clinical course. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Keywords: ARVC, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; BMI, body mass index; ECG, electrocardiogram; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; RV, right ventricle; RVH, right ventricular hypertrophy; electrocardiogram; magnetic resonance imaging; right ventricle.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States