Familial screening in case of acute myocarditis reveals inherited ...

Myocarditis: Which Role for Genetics? | Current Cardiology Reports

Myocarditis is a polymorphic disease, both in its presentation and clinical course. Recent data suggests that the genetic background, ...

Role of genetics in inflammatory cardiomyopathy

One example is isolated cardiac sarcoidosis, a distinct inflammatory cardiomyopathy that carries diagnostic challenges and clinical overlap; genetic testing has ...

Genetic Screening Reveals Heterogeneous Clinical Phenotypes in ...

1/100.000. Genetic screening of family members is not yet performed routinely. Patients and methods: Three families with dilated cardiomyopathy ...

Genetic aetiologies should be considered in paediatric cases of ...

Recently, it has been shown that 12% of children with acute myocarditis carried pathogenic autosomal recessive variants in cardiac genes.

Inherited Cardiomyopathies Revealed by Clinically Suspected ...

1, 2 In summary, our data confirm the role of genetic testing in cardiomyopathy-associated genes in severe forms of myocarditis patients and in those with a ...

desmoplakin cardiomyopathy masquerading as acute myocarditis

Labs and cardiac imaging were suspicious for acute myocarditis. Genetic testing revealed a diagnosis of desmoplakin cardiomyopathy. Desmoplakin cardiomyopathy ...

Myocardial Inflammation as a Manifestation of Genetic ... - MDPI

Familial Screening in Case of Acute Myocarditis Reveals Inherited Arrhythmogenic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathies. ESC Heart Fail. 2020, 7, 1520–1533 ...

Susceptibility to innate immune activation in genetically mediated ...

Clinically, myocarditis often comes on acutely, and it has both genetic and environmental triggers, including viral infections or response to ...

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Genetics - MedlinePlus

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy also occurs in people with no family history; these cases are considered nonfamilial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In ...

Acute Myocarditis Associated With Desmosomal Gene Variants - ArTS

Three representative cases are reported in. Supplemental Figure 5. GENETIC TEST RESULTS. Genetic screening identi- fied 30 distinct desmosomal allelic variants ...

Myocardial Inflammation and Sudden Death in the Inherited ...

21. Piriou, N. ∙ Marteau, L. ∙ Kyndt, F. ... Familial screening in case of acute myocarditis reveals inherited arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathies.

Clinical and genetic yield of familial screening after a sudden ...

Genetic examinations were performed in 39 families. Results: The definite diagnoses were made in 17 of 39 (44%) families. Cardiomyopathies were ...

FAQ: Genetic Causes of Myocarditis

There have been no reports of genetic mutations as a cause of myocarditis. Most research into a genetic cause for myocarditis has found that genes that regulate ...

Pathogenic truncating filamin C mutations presenting as acute ...

Piriou, Familial screening in case of acute myocarditis reveals inherited arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathies, ESC Heart Fail, № 7, с. 1520

Genetic testing for cardiac conditions - Mayo Clinic Health System

First-degree relatives have a 50% risk of having this mutation. If your testing identifies a genetic mutation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ...

Genetic Testing for Cardiac Disease - UHCprovider.com

Genetic testing is recommended for patients with cardiomyopathy. ... revealed by exome sequencing in a severe form of dilated cardiomyopathy.

Red Flags in Acute Myocarditis - Cardiac Failure Review

Red flags for a genetic aetiology include a positive family history of myocarditis, arrhythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy or sudden cardiac death. In ...

Preclinical Diagnosis of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by ...

We report a diagnostic test for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that relies on the detection of mutations in the β myosin heavy-chain gene in circulating ...

Genetic Basis of Childhood Cardiomyopathy

In all cases the initial diagnosis was myocarditis and the diagnostic odyssey was characterised by multiple presentations with significant troponin elevations,.

Case Report - SciELO

This case reports highlights to understand that genetic cardiomyopathy, particularly with DSP mutation, can present with acute myocarditis and to understand ...