A Case Study and Literature Review of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathyin the Horse

Abstract

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is aheart muscle disease characterized by the progressive degeneration of cardiac myocytes, which are replaced by fibrofatty tissue(Marcus et al., 2010; Pilichou et al., 2016). As the name of the disease would suggest, it is usually the right ventricle that is more severely affected, with more extensive replacement of myocardium with fatty or fibrofatty tissue (Corrado et al., 1997). However, the histological manifestation of the disease may progress to reach the ventricular septum, encroach into the left ventricle and even the atria(Meurs, 2017).