Arrhythmogenic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Suspected by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Confirmed by Identification of a Novel Plakophilin-2 Variant.

Circulation

From Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Zurich, Switzerland (A.M.S., R.M., A.G., C.B., F.D.); Department of Internal Medicine (B.B., K.A.M.) and Institute of Legal Medicine (D.W.), Cantonal Hospital of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland; and Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland (A.M.-D.).

Published: August 2015

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