Clinical and instrumental evaluation of the family of a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricle dysplasia.

Unlabelled: The aim of the present study is a clinical and instrumental evaluation of the family of a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricle dysplasia (ARVD), initially complicated by recurrent ventricular tachycardia and later by congestive cardiac failure. Because the probability of familial involvement is very high in those cases described in the literature, the authors evaluated the patient's 3 children: 2 daughters, twenty-four and twenty years old, respectively, and a twenty-one-year-old son; his niece, thirty-one years old; and her sons three and eight years old. The authors did not evaluate his fifty-six-year-old sister, because she was affected by rheumatic mitral valve disease.