The unchanged pulmonary betaAR density in the presence of a previously described significant reduction in myocardial betaAR density in the same patient principally supports our pathophysiological hypothesis that the myocardial betaAR density may be reduced in ARVC and RVO-VT because of an increase in local synaptic catecholamine levels due to an organ-limited presynaptic adrenergic dysfunction of the heart. Since in the present study only pulmonary betaAR density was measured, future functional studies excluding pulmonary betaAR desensitisation are required to finally prove the unchanged pulmonary sympathetic innervation in ARVC and RVO-VT.
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