Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Difference between revisions

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**anti-arrithmics: Amiodarone, Sotalol
**anti-arrithmics: Amiodarone, Sotalol
**ACE-inhibitors to prevent cardiac remodelling
**ACE-inhibitors to prevent cardiac remodelling
*Preventive [[ICD]] placements in patients in whom optimal medical treatment did not prevent [[Ventricular Tachycardia|ventricular tachycardia]] or [[ventricular fibrillation]]. Other patients who qualify for ICD placement: patients with severe disease with left ventricular involvement, patients with more family members who died of ARVD, patients who had a syncope while on medication and in whom arrhythmias cannot be excluded as a cause.
*Preventive [[ICD]] placements in patients in whom optimal medical treatment did not prevent [[Ventricular Tachycardia|ventricular tachycardia]] or [[Ventricular Fibrillation|ventricular fibrillation]]. Other patients who qualify for ICD placement: patients with severe disease with left ventricular involvement, patients with more family members who died of ARVD, patients who had a syncope while on medication and in whom arrhythmias cannot be excluded as a cause.
*Radiofrequency [[ablation]] in patients with recurrent [[Ventricular Tachycardia|ventricular tachycardia]].
*Radiofrequency [[ablation]] in patients with recurrent [[Ventricular Tachycardia|ventricular tachycardia]].