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Cardioverter defibrillator implantation in a patient with double chambered right ventricle

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Double-chambered right ventricle (DCRV) is a rare form of congenital heart disease in which the right ventricle is divided into a high-pressure inlet site and a low-pressure outlet site by anomalous muscle bands. We describe a patient with DCRV presenting with ventricular tachycardia.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Seta, 520-2192, Japan

    Shinro Matsuo, Ichiro Nakae, Yuko Oka & Minoru Horie

  2. Department of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuichi Sato

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Matsuo, S., Sato, Y., Nakae, I. et al. Cardioverter defibrillator implantation in a patient with double chambered right ventricle. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 23, 459–462 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-006-9179-3

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