This is the case report of a forty-five-year-old woman who manifested clini cal findings characteristic of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) except for fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FANA) positiveness. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of FANA positiveness associated with ARVD.
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