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- Title
Compound Mutation in Cardiac Sarcomere Proteins Is Associated with Increased Risk for Major Arrhythmic Events in Pediatric Onset Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Authors
Pollmann, Kathrin; Kaltenecker, Emanuel; Schleihauf, Julia; Ewert, Peter; Görlach, Agnes; Wolf, Cordula M.
- Abstract
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is associated with adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling causing dysfunction and malignant arrhythmias. Severely affected patients present with disease onset during childhood and sudden cardiac death risk (SCD) stratification is of the highest importance in this cohort. This study aimed to investigate genotype–phenotype association regarding clinical outcome and disease progression in pediatric onset HCM. Medical charts from forty-nine patients with pediatric HCM who had undergone genetic testing were reviewed for retrospective analysis. Demographic, clinical, transthoracic echocardiographic, electrocardiographic, long-term electrocardiogram, cardiopulmonary exercise test, cardiac magnetic resonance, and medication data were recorded. Childhood onset HCM was diagnosed in 29 males and 20 females. Median age at last follow-up was 18.7 years (range 2.6–51.7 years) with a median follow-up time since diagnosis of 8.5 years (range 0.2–38.0 years). Comparison of patients carrying mutations in distinct genes and comparison of genotype-negative with genotype-positive individuals, revealed no differences in functional classification, LV morphology, hypertrophy, systolic and diastolic function, fibrosis and cardiac medication. Patients with compound mutations had a significantly higher risk for major arrhythmic events than a single-mutation carrier. No association between affected genes and disease severity or progression was identified in this cohort.
- Subjects
HYPERTROPHIC cardiomyopathy; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIAC arrest; EXERCISE tests; CARDIAC magnetic resonance imaging; VENTRICULAR arrhythmia; GENETIC testing
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021, Vol 10, Issue 22, p5256
- ISSN
2077-0383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jcm10225256