Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Accompanied by Protein-Losing Enteropathy and Chylous Effusion.
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Protein-losing enteropathy seven years after total right ventricular exclusion procedure for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
A 27-year-old man who was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) underwent the total right ventricular (RV) exclusion procedure: the RV free wall was resected and an extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) was created using a 24-mm-diameter polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft. After an uneventful period of 7 years, he began to develop protein-losing enterop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Circulation Journal
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0047-1828,1347-4839
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.912