Table 2.
Literature review of similar reports
| Study | Year of publication | Population | RV affection | Conduction system disease | Arrhythmias | Diagnosis and follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibsen et al. [11] | 1985 |
Three members affected (one female and two males) 33 normal family members screened |
Dilated RV (two patients), impaired LV function (one patient) | + | Atrial arrhythmias | Heart failure first, then arrhythmia and heart block; postmortem biopsy carried out for proband showed RV hypertrophy with fiber attenuation, fibrosis of replacement type, and fatty infiltration |
| Graber et al. [12] | 1986 | One family (history of 214 members and six generations was obtained); proband and other 9 members were affected | Biventricular failure | + | Atrial and ventricular arrhythmias | LV affection and ventricular arrhythmias (this could be an early report of LMNA mutation) |
| Caglar et al. [13] | 1993 | One patient | Isolated RV cardiomyopathy |
+ Transient |
+ Transient |
Transient atrial flutter with heart block; patient refused pacing and was lost to follow-up |
| Blondheim et al. [14] | 2000 | Two sisters |
+ Idiopathic RA dilatation and RV enlargement |
+ One had complete heart block and VVI pacemaker |
– | Presentation with heart block at younger age |
| Doi et al.[15] | 2003 | Two sisters |
+ Isolated RV failure |
+ | – | Diagnosed as Fabry disease by endomyocardial biopsy, absence of extracardiac affection, LV hypertrophy diagnosed by echocardiography, restrictive pathology by catheterization |
| Biočić et al. [16] | 2010 | Brother and sister | Idiopathic RA enlargement, progressive RV dilatation at follow-up with normal LV function in first patient; his sister showed normal RV function and mild impairment of LV systolic function |
+ Complete heart block (first patient) |
+ Atrial fibrillation |
SCD of the first patient (no biopsy) after short follow-up |
| Vakil et al. [17] | 2014 | One female patient |
+ Isolated RV failure |
+ (Complete heart block) |
+ Atrial flutter |
Diagnosed by pathology after transplantation, as isolated RV sarcoidosis |
| Figuero et al. [18] | 2015 | One male | Isolated RV cardiomyopathy | – | – | CMR (no scars, no ARVC), TEE: no shunts, right heart catheterization (RHC) and pulmonary angiography (PA) (excludes pulmonary hypertension (PH)); follow-up for 2 years: the patient is asymptomatic, and RV still dilated |