Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 1999
Arrhythmic disorder mapped to chromosome 1q42-q43 causes malignant polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal hearts.
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Swan H, Piippo K, Viitasalo M, Heikkilä P, Paavonen T, Kainulainen K, Kere J, Keto P, Kontula K, Toivonen L
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OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to provide clinical and anatomical characteristics as well as genetic background of a malignant arrhythmogenic disorder.
BACKGROUND: An inherited autosomally dominant cardiac syndrome causing stress-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and syncope in the absence of structural myocardial changes was detected in two families.
METHODS: Two unrelated families with six victims of sudden death and 51 living members were evaluated. Resting and exercise electrocardiograms (ECG), echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cineangiography, microscopic examination of endomyocardial biopsies and a drug testing with a class IC antiarrhythmic agent flecainide were performed. A genetic linkage analysis was carried out to map the gene locus.
RESULTS: Of the 24 affected individuals, 10 had succumbed with six cases of sudden death, and 14 survivors showed evidence of disease. Exercise stress test induced ventricular bigeminy or polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in affected individuals. Three children initially examined before 10 years of age developed arrhythmias during a four-year follow-up. Resting ECGs were normal in affected subjects except a slight prolongation of the QT intervals adjusted for heart rate (QTc) (430 +/- 18 vs. 409 +/- 19 ms, affected vs. nonaffected, p < 0.01). Administration of flecainide did not induce ECG abnormalities encountered in familial idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular volumes, contractility and wall measurements were normal by echocardiography, right ventricular cineangiography and MRI. Histopathological examination showed no fibrosis or fatty infiltration. The cumulative cardiac mortality by the age of 30 years was 31%. The disease locus was assigned to chromosome 1q42-q43, with a maximal pairwise lod score of 4.74 in the two families combined. Only one heterozygous carrier was clinically unaffected suggesting high disease penetrance in adulthood.
CONCLUSIONS: A distinct cardiac disorder linked to chromosome 1q42-q43 causes exercise-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal hearts and is highly malignant. Delayed clinical manifestation necessitates repeated exercise electrocardiography to assure diagnosis in young individuals of the families.
BACKGROUND: An inherited autosomally dominant cardiac syndrome causing stress-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and syncope in the absence of structural myocardial changes was detected in two families.
METHODS: Two unrelated families with six victims of sudden death and 51 living members were evaluated. Resting and exercise electrocardiograms (ECG), echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cineangiography, microscopic examination of endomyocardial biopsies and a drug testing with a class IC antiarrhythmic agent flecainide were performed. A genetic linkage analysis was carried out to map the gene locus.
RESULTS: Of the 24 affected individuals, 10 had succumbed with six cases of sudden death, and 14 survivors showed evidence of disease. Exercise stress test induced ventricular bigeminy or polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in affected individuals. Three children initially examined before 10 years of age developed arrhythmias during a four-year follow-up. Resting ECGs were normal in affected subjects except a slight prolongation of the QT intervals adjusted for heart rate (QTc) (430 +/- 18 vs. 409 +/- 19 ms, affected vs. nonaffected, p < 0.01). Administration of flecainide did not induce ECG abnormalities encountered in familial idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular volumes, contractility and wall measurements were normal by echocardiography, right ventricular cineangiography and MRI. Histopathological examination showed no fibrosis or fatty infiltration. The cumulative cardiac mortality by the age of 30 years was 31%. The disease locus was assigned to chromosome 1q42-q43, with a maximal pairwise lod score of 4.74 in the two families combined. Only one heterozygous carrier was clinically unaffected suggesting high disease penetrance in adulthood.
CONCLUSIONS: A distinct cardiac disorder linked to chromosome 1q42-q43 causes exercise-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal hearts and is highly malignant. Delayed clinical manifestation necessitates repeated exercise electrocardiography to assure diagnosis in young individuals of the families.
Предметные рубрики MeSH
AdolescentAdultAnti-Arrhythmia AgentsBiopsyChildChromosome AberrationsChromosome DisordersChromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, Pair 1CineangiographyCoronary AngiographyDeath, Sudden, CardiacDiagnosis, DifferentialEchocardiographyElectrocardiographyExercise TestFemaleFlecainideGenetic LinkageHumansLod ScoreMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedMyocardial ContractionMyocardiumPedigreePotassium ChannelsPotassium Channels, Tandem Pore DomainRNAReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSurvival RateTachycardia, Ventricular