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. 2019 Oct 21;41(14):1414–1429. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz669

Table 2.

Idiopathic right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia vs arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy-related ventricular tachycardia

RVOT-VT ARVC
Disease inheritance No Yes (AD)
Genetic defect No Desmosomal genes-mutations
Symptoms Palpitations, pre-syncope Palpitations, syncope, cardiac arrest
ECG abnormalities Normal Right precordial T-wave inversion, ε waves, right precordial QRS prolongation with delayed S-wave upstroke, and terminal activation delay (>55 ms), low QRS voltages
Imaging Normal Structural and functional RV abnormalities
Biopsy Normal Fibrofatty myocardial replacement
Morphology of VT NSVT repetitive monomorphic; LBBB usually with inferior QRS axis LBBB Usually with left deviation
Multiple VT morphologies No Yes
VT mechanism Enhanced automaticity and triggered activity Scar-related re-entry
Typical site of VT origin Anteroseptal RVOT Non-septal RVOT
RV EVM Normal Low-voltage areas
Programmed ventricular stimulation Non-inducible VT Inducible VT

AD, autosomal dominant; EVM, endocardial voltage mapping; LBBB, left bundle branch block; NSVT, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia; RV, right ventricle; RVOT, right ventricular outflow tract; TWI, T-wave inversion; VF, ventricular fibrillation; VT, ventricular tachycardia.