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Lethal arrhythmias, including ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, may occur in the absence of apparent morphological abnormalities. However, a recent study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has suggested that localized, minor structural abnormalities of the right ventricle are responsible for right ventricular outflow tract ventricular tachycardia in a number of patients. We demonstrated regional wall thinning and systolic dyskinesia of the right ventricle by MRI in two patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation in whom other cardiac imaging modalities failed to show abnormalities. This finding implies that minor structural abnormalities do exist in patients with so-called idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.
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Sato, Y., Kato, K., Hashimoto, M. et al. Localized right ventricular structural abnormalities in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation: Magnetic resonance imaging study. Heart Vessels 11, 100–103 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01744510
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