ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 3

Sudden Unexpected Death in Young Adult due to Right Ventricular Dysplasia
Lane, CD
Pathologist, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center, PA

(Received 1 April 1996; accepted 15 May 1996)

Abstract

This case report illustrates a rare familial cardiomyopathy first reported in the medical literature in 1982 known as right ventricular dysplasia (right ventricular cardiomyopathy). The patient is a young woman with a history of cardiac arrhythmias suspected to be associated with prolapsed mitral valve who presented to the Berks County Coroner's office as a sudden unexpected death in a young adult. It is important to recognize the illustrated classic cardiac pathology of this rare entity for clinical management, as an anatomic explanation of cause of sudden death and for the accumulation of statistics to establish frequency, conditions of predisposition, response to therapy and predicted outcome.

Keywords:
forensic science, forensic pathology, right ventricular dysplasia, (arrhythmogenic) right ventricular cardiomyopathy, lipomatous infiltration of the heart, sudden unexpected death, young adults

Paper ID: JFS14086J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14086J
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