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Shastry S, Delgado MR, Dirik E, Turkmen M, Agarwal AK, Garg A. Congenital generalized lipodystrophy, type 4 (CGL4) associated with myopathy due to novel PTRF mutations. Am J Med Genet A 2010; 152A:2245-53. [PMID: 20684003 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by near total absence of body fat since birth with predisposition to insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia, and hepatic steatosis. Three CGL loci, AGPAT2, BSCL2, and CAV1, have been identified previously. Recently, mutations in polymerase I and transcript release factor (PTRF) were reported in five Japanese patients presenting with myopathy and CGL (CGL4). We report novel PTRF mutations and detailed phenotypes of two male and three female patients with CGL4 belonging to two pedigrees of Mexican origin (CGL7100 and CGL178) and one pedigree of Turkish origin (CGL180). All patients had near total loss of body fat and congenital myopathy manifesting as weakness, percussion-induced muscle mounding, and high serum creatine kinase levels. Four of them had hypertriglyceridemia. Three of them had atlantoaxial instability. Two patients belonging to CGL178 pedigree required surgery for pyloric stenosis in the first month of life. None of them had prolonged QT interval on electrocardiography but both siblings belonging to CGL7100 had exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. Three of them had mild acanthosis nigricans but had normal glucose tolerance. Two of them had hepatic steatosis. All patients had novel null mutations in PTRF gene. In conclusion, mutations in PTRF result in a novel phenotype that includes generalized lipodystrophy with mild metabolic derangements, myopathy, cardiac arrhythmias, atlantoaxial instability, and pyloric stenosis. It is unclear how mutations in PTRF, which plays an essential role in formation of caveolae, affect a wide variety of tissues resulting in a variable phenotype.
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- Savitha Shastry
- Division of Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Monteforte N, Cerrone M. Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. Card Electrophysiol Clin 2010; 2:521-531. [PMID: 28770716 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccep.2010.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited arrhythmogenic disease characterized by a structurally normal heart and high lethality beginning in early childhood. The identification of its genetic bases made possible the discovery that arrhythmias are caused by intracellular calcium dysregulation. In the 9 years since the description of the genetic substrate of the disease, we have witnessed remarkable progress in the unraveling of the molecular mechanisms underlying its arrhythmogenesis. The impact of these discoveries extends beyond the field of inherited arrhythmias and sheds new light on the arrhythmogenic mechanisms in some more prevalent diseases characterized by abnormal calcium regulation, such as heart failure. Additionally, basic research studies led to the exploration of new therapeutic strategies with potential clinical impact in the near future in reducing the still high incidence of sudden death associated with these conditions. In the current review, the authors discuss the clinical and genetic features of CPVT, highlighting pathophysiologic insights derived from experimental research and future therapeutic targets.
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- Nicola Monteforte
- Molecular Cardiology Laboratories, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, via Maugeri 10/10A, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Cardiovascular Genetics Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue SRB707, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Kushnir A, Marks AR. The ryanodine receptor in cardiac physiology and disease. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY 2010; 59:1-30. [PMID: 20933197 DOI: 10.1016/s1054-3589(10)59001-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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According to the American Heart Association it is estimated that the United States will spend close to $39 billion in 2010 to treat over five million Americans suffering from heart failure. Patients with heart failure suffer from dyspnea and decreased exercised tolerance and are at increased risk for fatal ventricular arrhythmias. Food and Drug Administration -approved pharmacologic therapies for heart failure include diuretics, inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system, and β-adrenergic receptor antagonists. Over the past 20 years advances in the field of ryanodine receptor (RyR2)/calcium release channel research have greatly advanced our understanding of cardiac physiology and the pathogenesis of heart failure and arrhythmias. Here we review the key observations, controversies, and discoveries that have led to the development of novel compounds targeting the RyR2/calcium release channel for treating heart failure and for preventing lethal arrhythmias.
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- Alexander Kushnir
- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Clyde and Helen Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Roberts JD, Gollob MH. The genetic and clinical features of cardiac channelopathies. Future Cardiol 2010; 6:491-506. [PMID: 20608822 DOI: 10.2217/fca.10.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Sudden cardiac death, secondary to malignant ventricular arrhythmias, has traditionally been associated with structural heart disease. An important exception includes a group of clinical entities referred to as 'channelopathies' that develop secondary to genetic mutations, which alter cardiac ion channel activity. Otherwise healthy individuals affected by these forms of primary electrical disease are vulnerable to fatal arrhythmic events from a very young age. At present, there are four distinct conditions that are classified as cardiac channelopathies, namely congenital long-QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and short-QT syndrome. Our growing insight into the genetics of these conditions has led to an improved understanding of the molecular pathophysiology responsible for the malignant arrhythmias characterizing these disorders. However, despite our knowledge of these conditions, the success of medical therapy remains modest and the prevention of sudden cardiac death may necessitate insertion of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. The young age of affected patients makes this a particularly undesirable treatment strategy and emphasizes the importance of translating our insight into the molecular pathophysiology defining these conditions into more effective forms of therapy.
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- Jason D Roberts
- Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4W7, Canada
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Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. While the etiology for the majority of cardiovascular disease is presumed to be a combination of genetic and environmental factors, developments in understanding the basic biology of cardiac disorders have been greatly advanced through discoveries made studying heart diseases that exhibit Mendelian forms of inheritance. Most of these diseases primarily affect children and young adults and include cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, aortic aneurysms, and congenital heart defects. The discovery of the genetic etiologies for these diseases have had significant impact on our understanding of more complex forms of cardiovascular disease and in some cases have led to novel diagnostic and treatment modalities. In this review, we will summarize these seminal genetic discoveries, highlighting a few that have resulted in significant impact on human disease, and discuss the potential utility of studying Mendelian-inherited heart disease with the development of new genetic technologies and our increased understanding of the human genome.
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- Kim L McBride
- Departments of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Wei L, Dirksen RT. Ryanodinopathies: RyR-Linked Muscle Diseases. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2010; 66:139-67. [PMID: 22353479 DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(10)66007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2023]
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Zhang Y, Fraser JA, Jeevaratnam K, Hao X, Hothi SS, Grace AA, Lei M, Huang CLH. Acute atrial arrhythmogenicity and altered Ca(2+) homeostasis in murine RyR2-P2328S hearts. Cardiovasc Res 2010; 89:794-804. [PMID: 20621925 PMCID: PMC3039245 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvq229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Aims The experiments explored for atrial arrhythmogenesis and its possible physiological background in recently developed hetero-(RyR2+/S) and homozygotic (RyR2S/S) RyR2-P2328S murine models for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) for the first time. They complement previous clinical and experimental reports describing increased ventricular arrhythmic tendencies associated with physical activity, stress, or catecholamine infusion, potentially leading to VT and ventricular fibrillation. Methods and results Atrial arrhythmogenic properties were compared at the whole animal, Langendorff-perfused heart, and single, isolated atrial myocyte levels using electrophysiological and confocal fluorescence microscopy methods. This demonstrated that: (i) electrocardiographic parameters in intact anaesthetized wild-type (WT), RyR2+/S and RyR2S/S mice were statistically indistinguishable both before and after addition of isoproterenol apart from increases in heart rates. (ii) Bipolar electrogram and monophasic action potential recordings showed significantly higher incidences of arrhythmogenesis in isolated perfused RyR2S/S, but not RyR2+/S, relative to WT hearts during either regular pacing or programmed electrical stimulation. The addition of isoproterenol increased such incidences in all three groups. (iii) However, there were no accompanying differences in cardiac anatomy or action potential durations at 90% repolarization and refractory periods. (iv) In contrast, episodes of diastolic Ca2+ release were observed under confocal microscopy in isolated fluo-3-loaded RyR2S/S, but not RyR2+/S or WT, atrial myocytes. The introduction of isoproterenol resulted in significant diastolic Ca2+ release in all three groups. Conclusions These findings establish acute atrial arrhythmogenic properties in RyR2-P2328S hearts and correlate these with altered Ca2+ homeostasis in an absence of repolarization abnormalities for the first time.
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- Yanmin Zhang
- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK
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Katz G, Khoury A, Kurtzwald E, Hochhauser E, Porat E, Shainberg A, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Lorber A, Eldar M, Arad M. Optimizing catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia therapy in calsequestrin-mutant mice. Heart Rhythm 2010; 7:1676-82. [PMID: 20620233 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2010] [Accepted: 07/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a lethal arrhythmia provoked by physical or emotional stress and mediated by spontaneous Ca(2+) release and delayed after-depolarizations. Beta-adrenergic blockers are the therapy of choice but fail to control arrhythmia in up to 50% of patients. OBJECTIVE To optimize antiarrhythmic therapy in recessively inherited CPVT caused by calsequestrin (CASQ2) mutations. METHODS Murine heart rhythm telemetry was obtained at rest, during treadmill exercise, and after injection of epinephrine. The protocol was repeated after injection of different antiarrhythmic drugs. Results were then validated in human patients. RESULTS Adult CASQ2 mutant mice had complex ventricular arrhythmia at rest and developed bidirectional and polymorphic ventricular tachycardia on exertion. Class I antiarrhythmic agents (procainamide, lidocaine, flecainide) were ineffective in controlling arrhythmia. Propranolol and sotalol attenuated arrhythmia at rest but failed to prevent VT during sympathetic stimulation. The calcium channel blocker verapamil showed a dose-dependent protection against CPVT. Verapamil was more effective than the dihydropyridine L-type Ca(2+) channel blocker nifedipine, and its activity was markedly enhanced when combined with propranolol. Human patients homozygous for CASQ2(D307H) mutation, remaining symptomatic despite chronic β-blocker therapy, underwent exercise testing according to the Bruce protocol with continuous electrocardiogram recording. Verapamil was combined with propranolol at maximum tolerated doses. Adding verapamil attenuated ventricular arrhythmia and prolonged exercise duration in five of 11 patients. CONCLUSION Verapamil is highly effective against catecholamine-induced arrhythmia in mice with CASQ2 mutations and may potentiate the antiarrhythmic activity of β-blockers in humans with CPVT2.
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- Guy Katz
- Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited arrhythmogenic disorder that causes syncopal episodes related with stress or emotion and even sudden cardiac deaths. Signs and symptoms usually begin in childhood. A suspicion of CPVT should be kept in mind when a child or an adolescent suddenly loses consciousness, particularly if this happens upon physical exercise or sudden mental stress. During the past decade, the knowledge of CPVT genetics and physiology has increased. Exercise testing is essential when suspecting arrhythmogenic origin of syncope, and in the case of CPVT, it may be even more sensitive than Holter monitoring. Beta-antiadrenergic medication can substantially decrease the mortality associated with CPVT. Asymptomatic patients with known CPVT gene defects should also be treated because sudden cardiac death may be the first manifestation of the disease. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator may also be required in the most severe CPVT cases. In this review, we summarise the current knowledge on the clinical characteristics, diagnostic, genetic and prognostic features of CPVT in children. In all, 133 publications covering 60 years were checked, and those written in English and containing ten or more, mainly paediatric CPVT cases, were included. In addition, a CPVT family with three members and delayed diagnoses until late childhood and adulthood is presented.
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Leren IS, Haugaa KH, Edvardsen T, Anfinsen OG, Kongsgård E, Berge KE, Leren TP, Amlie JP. [Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia]. TIDSSKRIFT FOR DEN NORSKE LEGEFORENING 2010; 130:139-42. [PMID: 20125202 DOI: 10.4045/tidsskr.09.0529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND CPVT (catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia) is a condition characterized by syncopes and cardiac arrest that was first described in 1975. CPVT has later been classified as a genetic disease with a great risk for life-threatening arrhythmias that are mainly caused by mutations in the ryanodine receptor 2 gene. Starting with a case report, we present an overview of CPVT. MATERIAL AND METHODS The literature reviewed was identified through a non-systematic search in PubMed. RESULTS Diagnosing CPVT may be difficult, as resting ECG is normal and the syncopes may be misdiagnosed as epilepsy. Information about syncopes related to physical or emotional stress and occurrence of unexplained syncopes or cardiac arrest among family members, is important in the diagnostic evaluation. An exercise stress test often reveals the classical pattern of ventricular arrhythmias at heart rates above 100 beats/min. The diagnosis can be confirmed by genetic testing. By beta-blocker treatment and, if necessary, an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) the prognosis can be improved. INTERPRETATION CPVT is a serious disease with a poor prognosis when left untreated. It is a rare but important differential diagnosis in young individuals with syncopes or cardiac arrest. Genetic screening of relatives has made it possible to identify mutation carriers in affected families in order to provide them with preventive therapy.
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Haugaa KH, Leren IS, Berge KE, Bathen J, Loennechen JP, Anfinsen OG, Früh A, Edvardsen T, Kongsgård E, Leren TP, Amlie JP. High prevalence of exercise-induced arrhythmias in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia mutation-positive family members diagnosed by cascade genetic screening. Europace 2010; 12:417-23. [PMID: 20106799 DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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AIM Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited cardiac disease predisposing to life-threatening arrhythmias. We aimed to determine the prevalence of arrhythmias and efficacy of beta-blocker treatment in mutation-positive family members diagnosed by cascade genetic screening. METHODS AND RESULTS Relatives of six unrelated CPVT patients were tested for the relevant mutation in the ryanodine receptor-2 gene. Mutation carriers underwent an exercise test at inclusion time and 3 months after the initiation of beta-blocker therapy in the highest tolerable dose. The occurrence of ventricular premature beats, couplets, and non-sustained ventricular arrhythmias (nsVT) were recorded in addition to the heart rate at which they occurred. Thirty family members were mutation carriers and were followed for 22 (13-288) months. Previous undiagnosed CPVT-related symptoms were reported by eight subjects. Exercise test induced ventricular arrhythmias in 23 of the 30 mutation carriers. On beta-blocker treatment, exercise-induced arrhythmias occurred at a lower heart rate (117 +/- 17 vs. 135 +/- 34 beats/min, P = 0.02) but at similar workload (P = 0.78). Beta-blocker treatment suppressed the occurrence of exercise-induced nsVT in three of the four patients, while less severe arrhythmias were unchanged. One patient died during follow-up. CONCLUSION Exercise test revealed a high prevalence of arrhythmias in CPVT mutation carriers diagnosed by cascade genetic screening. beta-Blocker therapy appeared to suppress the most severe exercise-induced arrhythmias, while less severe arrhythmias occurred at a lower heart rate.
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Medeiros-Domingo A, Bhuiyan ZA, Tester DJ, Hofman N, Bikker H, van Tintelen JP, Mannens MM, Wilde AA, Ackerman MJ. The RYR2-encoded ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel in patients diagnosed previously with either catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or genotype negative, exercise-induced long QT syndrome: a comprehensive open reading frame mutational analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54:2065-74. [PMID: 19926015 PMCID: PMC2880864 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2009] [Revised: 08/28/2009] [Accepted: 08/30/2009] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to determine the spectrum and prevalence of mutations in the RYR2-encoded cardiac ryanodine receptor in cases with exertional syncope and normal corrected QT interval (QTc). BACKGROUND Mutations in RYR2 cause type 1 catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT1), a cardiac channelopathy with increased propensity for lethal ventricular dysrhythmias. Most RYR2 mutational analyses target 3 canonical domains encoded by <40% of the translated exons. The extent of CPVT1-associated mutations localizing outside of these domains remains unknown as RYR2 has not been examined comprehensively in most patient cohorts. METHODS Mutational analysis of all RYR2 exons was performed using polymerase chain reaction, high-performance liquid chromatography, and deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing on 155 unrelated patients (49% females, 96% Caucasian, age at diagnosis 20 +/- 15 years, mean QTc 428 +/- 29 ms), with either clinical diagnosis of CPVT (n = 110) or an initial diagnosis of exercise-induced long QT syndrome but with QTc <480 ms and a subsequent negative long QT syndrome genetic test (n = 45). RESULTS Sixty-three (34 novel) possible CPVT1-associated mutations, absent in 400 reference alleles, were detected in 73 unrelated patients (47%). Thirteen new mutation-containing exons were identified. Two-thirds of the CPVT1-positive patients had mutations that localized to 1 of 16 exons. CONCLUSIONS Possible CPVT1 mutations in RYR2 were identified in nearly one-half of this cohort; 45 of the 105 translated exons are now known to host possible mutations. Considering that approximately 65% of CPVT1-positive cases would be discovered by selective analysis of 16 exons, a tiered targeting strategy for CPVT genetic testing should be considered.
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology and Heart Failure Research Centre, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN USA
- Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN USA
- Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN USA
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Leite LR, Henz BD, Macedo PG, Santos SN, Barreto JR, Zanatta A, Fenelon G, Cruz Filho FES. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: a current overview. Future Cardiol 2009; 5:191-9. [PMID: 19371192 DOI: 10.2217/14796678.5.2.191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia occurs in healthy children and young adults causing syncope and sudden cardiac death. This is a familial disease, which affect de novo mutation in 50% of the cases. At least two causative genes have been described to be localized in the chromosome 1; mutation of the ryanodine receptor gene and calsequestrin gene. The classical clinical presentation is syncope triggered by exercise and emotion in children and adolescents with no structural heart disease. Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia during treadmill testing, or after isoproterenol infusion, is the most common feature. Therapeutic options include, beta-blockers, calcium-channel blockers and, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator is indicated in high-risk patients. Risk stratification of this disease is very challenging, since some risk factors proved to be useful in some series but not in others. However, family history of sudden cardiac death and symptoms initiated in very young children are important predictors.
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- Luiz R Leite
- Grupo de Estudos em Arritmias Cardíacas/Fibrilação Atrial, Brasília DF, SMDB Conj., 16 Lote 5 Casa 1, Brasília 71680-160, DF, Brazil.
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Cerrone M, Napolitano C, Priori SG. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: A paradigm to understand mechanisms of arrhythmias associated to impaired Ca(2+) regulation. Heart Rhythm 2009; 6:1652-9. [PMID: 19879546 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.06.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2009] [Accepted: 07/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In the 8 years since the discovery of the genetic bases of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), we have witnessed a remarkable improvement of knowledge on arrhythmogenic mechanisms involving disruption of cardiac Ca(2+) homeostasis. Studies on the consequences of RyR2 and CASQ2 mutations in cellular systems and mouse models have shed new light on pathways that are also implicated in arrhythmias occurring in highly prevalent diseases, such as heart failure. This research track has also led to the identification of therapeutic targets of potential clinical impact to abate the burden of sudden death in CPVT. Here, we review the current knowledge on the pathophysiology of CPVT also highlighting the existing controversies and possible future development.
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- Marina Cerrone
- Cardiovascular Genetics, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Hayashi M, Denjoy I, Extramiana F, Maltret A, Buisson NR, Lupoglazoff JM, Klug D, Hayashi M, Takatsuki S, Villain E, Kamblock J, Messali A, Guicheney P, Lunardi J, Leenhardt A. Incidence and Risk Factors of Arrhythmic Events in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. Circulation 2009; 119:2426-34. [DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.108.829267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 409] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background—
The pathophysiological background of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is well understood, but the clinical features of this stress-induced arrhythmic disorder, especially the incidence and risk factors of arrhythmic events, have not been fully ascertained.
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The outcome in 101 catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia patients, including 50 probands, was analyzed. During a mean follow-up of 7.9 years, cardiac events defined as syncope, aborted cardiac arrest, including appropriate discharges from implantable defibrillators, or sudden cardiac death occurred in 27 patients, including 2 mutation carriers with normal exercise tests. The estimated 8-year event rate was 32% in the total population and 27% and 58% in the patients with and without β-blockers, respectively. Absence of β-blockers (hazard ratio [HR], 5.48; 95% CI, 1.80 to 16.68) and younger age at diagnosis (HR, 0.54 per decade; 95% CI, 0.33 to 0.89) were independent predictors. Fatal or near-fatal events defined as aborted cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death occurred in 13 patients, resulting in an estimated 8-year event rate of 13%. Absence of β-blockers (HR, 5.54; 95% CI, 1.17 to 26.15) and history of aborted cardiac arrest (HR, 13.01; 95% CI, 2.48 to 68.21) were independent predictors. No difference was observed in cardiac and fatal or near-fatal event rates between probands and family members.
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Cardiac and fatal or near-fatal events were not rare in both catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia probands and affected family members during the long-term follow-up, even while taking β-blockers, which was associated with a lower event rate. Further studies evaluating concomitant therapies are necessary to improve outcome in these patients.
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- Meiso Hayashi
- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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- From the Service de Cardiologie (Meiso Hayashi, I.D., F.E., Miyuki Hayashi, S.T., A.M., A.L.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM U942, Paris, France; Cardiologie Pédiatrique (A.M., E.V.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire (N.R.B., J.L.), CHU Grenoble, France; Unité de Cardiologie Néonatale (J.-M.L.), Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France; Hôpital Cardiologique de
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Blayney LM, Lai FA. Ryanodine receptor-mediated arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Pharmacol Ther 2009; 123:151-77. [PMID: 19345240 PMCID: PMC2704947 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 03/03/2009] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The cardiac ryanodine receptor-Ca2+ release channel (RyR2) is an essential sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) transmembrane protein that plays a central role in excitation–contraction coupling (ECC) in cardiomyocytes. Aberrant spontaneous, diastolic Ca2+ leak from the SR due to dysfunctional RyR2 contributes to the formation of delayed after-depolarisations, which are thought to underlie the fatal arrhythmia that occurs in both heart failure (HF) and in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). CPVT is an inherited disorder associated with mutations in either the RyR2 or a SR luminal protein, calsequestrin. RyR2 shows normal function at rest in CPVT but the RyR2 dysfunction is unmasked by physical exercise or emotional stress, suggesting abnormal RyR2 activation as an underlying mechanism. Several potential mechanisms have been advanced to explain the dysfunctional RyR2 observed in HF and CPVT, including enhanced RyR2 phosphorylation status, altered RyR2 regulation at luminal/cytoplasmic sites and perturbed RyR2 intra/inter-molecular interactions. This review considers RyR2 dysfunction in the context of the structural and functional modulation of the channel, and potential therapeutic strategies to stabilise RyR2 function in cardiac pathology.
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- Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff CF144XN, UK.
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Marjamaa A, Laitinen-Forsblom P, Lahtinen AM, Viitasalo M, Toivonen L, Kontula K, Swan H. Search for cardiac calcium cycling gene mutations in familial ventricular arrhythmias resembling catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. BMC MEDICAL GENETICS 2009; 10:12. [PMID: 19216760 PMCID: PMC2667497 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-10-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2008] [Accepted: 02/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Background Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a severe inherited cardiac disorder caused by mutations predominantly in the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) gene. We sought to identify mutations in genes affecting cardiac calcium cycling in patients with CPVT and in less typical familial exercise-related ventricular arrhythmias. Methods and Results We recruited 33 consecutive patients with frequent ventricular premature complexes (VPCs) without structural heart disease and often history of syncope or sudden death in family. Sixteen of the patients featured a phenotype typical of CPVT. In 17 patients, VPCs emerged also at rest. Exercise stress test and echocardiography were performed to each patient and 232 family members. Familial background was evident in 42% of cases (n = 14). We sequenced all the coding exons of the RyR2, FKBP1B, ATP2A2 and SLC8A1 genes from the index patients. Single channel recordings of a mutant RyR2 were performed in planar lipid bilayers. Two novel RyR2 missense mutations (R1051P and S616L) and two RyR2 exon 3 deletions were identified, explaining 25% of the CPVT phenotypes. A rare variant (N3308S) with open probabilities similar to the wild type channels in vitro, was evident in a patient with resting VPCs. No disease-causing variants were detectable in the FKBP1B, ATP2A2 or SLC8A1 genes. Conclusion We report two novel CPVT-causing RyR2 mutations and a novel RyR2 variant of uncertain clinical significance in a patient with abundant resting VPCs. Our data also strengthen the previous assumption that exon 3 deletions of RyR2 should screened for in CPVT and related phenotypes.
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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Katz G, Arad M, Eldar M. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia from bedside to bench and beyond. Curr Probl Cardiol 2009; 34:9-43. [PMID: 19068246 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2008.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a primary electrical myocardial disease characterized by exercise- and stress-related ventricular tachycardia manifested as syncope and sudden death. The disease has a heterogeneous genetic basis, with mutations in the cardiac Ryanodine Receptor channel (RyR2) gene accounting for an autosomal-dominant form (CPVT1) in approximately 50% and mutations in the cardiac calsequestrin gene (CASQ2) accounting for an autosomal-recessive form (CPVT2) in up to 2% of CPVT cases. Both RyR2 and calsequestrin are important participants in the cardiac cellular calcium homeostasis. We review the physiology of the cardiac calcium homeostasis, including the cardiac excitation contraction coupling and myocyte calcium cycling. The pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias related to myocyte calcium handling and the effects of different modulators are discussed. The putative derangements in myocyte calcium homeostasis responsible for CPVT, as well as the clinical manifestations and therapeutic options available, are described.
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Goddard CA, Ghais NS, Zhang Y, Williams AJ, Colledge WH, Grace AA, Huang CLH. Physiological consequences of the P2328S mutation in the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) gene in genetically modified murine hearts. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2008; 194:123-40. [PMID: 18419777 PMCID: PMC2628439 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2008.01865.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Aim To explore the physiological consequences of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2)-P2328S mutation associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Methods We generated heterozygotic (RyR2p/s) and homozygotic (RyR2s/s) transgenic mice and studied Ca2+ signals from regularly stimulated, Fluo-3-loaded, cardiac myocytes. Results were compared with monophasic action potentials (MAPs) in Langendorff-perfused hearts under both regular and programmed electrical stimulation (PES). Results Evoked Ca2+ transients from wild-type (WT), heterozygote (RyR2p/s) and homozygote (RyR2s/s) myocytes had indistinguishable peak amplitudes with RyR2s/s showing subsidiary events. Adding 100 nm isoproterenol produced both ectopic peaks and subsidiary events in WT but not RyR2p/s and ectopic peaks and reduced amplitudes of evoked peaks in RyR2s/s. Regularly stimulated WT, RyR2p/s and RyR2s/s hearts showed indistinguishable MAP durations and refractory periods. RyR2p/s hearts showed non-sustained ventricular tachycardias (nsVTs) only with PES. Both nsVTs and sustained VTs (sVTs) occurred with regular stimuli and PES with isoproterenol treatment. RyR2s/s hearts showed higher incidences of nsVTs before but mainly sVTs after introduction of isoproterenol with both regular stimuli and PES, particularly at higher pacing frequencies. Additionally, intrinsically beating RyR2s/s showed extrasystolic events often followed by spontaneous sVT. Conclusion The RyR2-P2328S mutation results in marked alterations in cellular Ca2+ homeostasis and arrhythmogenic properties resembling CPVT with greater effects in the homozygote than the heterozygote demonstrating an important gene dosage effect.
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- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a highly malignant form of arrhythmogenic disorder characterized by exercise- or emotional-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in the absence of detectable structural heart disease. Because of the typical pattern of arrhythmias (bidirectional ventricular tachycardia and the occurrence and severity of arrhythmia correlated well with exercise workload) during exercise stress test, CPVT can be identified promptly. Molecular genetic screening of the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and calsequestrin is critical to confirm uncertain diagnosis of CPVT. With the exception of beta-blockers, no pharmacologic therapy of proven effectiveness is available: although beta-blockers reduce the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia, 30% of patients treated with beta-blockers still experience cardiac arrhythmias and eventually require implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation to prevent cardiac arrest.
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DE LA FUENTE SAM, VAN LANGEN IRENEM, POSTMA ALEXV, BIKKER HENNI, MEIJER ALBERT. A Case of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Caused by Two Calsequestrin 2 Mutations. PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: PACE 2008; 31:916-9. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01111.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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U-waves and T-wave peak to T-wave end intervals in patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, effects of beta-blockers. Heart Rhythm 2008; 5:1382-8. [PMID: 18929323 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2008] [Accepted: 06/10/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is characterized by risk of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (pVT) and sudden death during stress. Experimental CPVT models show that delayed afterdepolarization (DAD)-induced triggered activity is the initiating mechanism of pVT, whereas an increase in transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) controls degeneration of pVT to ventricular fibrillation. U-wave and T-wave peak to T-wave end interval (TPE) are regarded as electrocardiographic counterparts of DAD and TDR, respectively. OBJECTIVE We tested hypotheses that patients with CPVT might show abnormal U-waves and TPE intervals and that beta-blockers could suppress appearance of these repolarization abnormalities. METHODS We reviewed Holter recordings from 19 CPVT patients with a RyR2 mutation (P2328S or V4653F) and from 19 healthy unaffected subjects to record U-waves and TPE intervals as well as to measure beta-blockers' effects on ventricular repolarization by use of an automated computerized program. RESULTS The maximal U-wave to T-wave amplitude ratio was 0.8 +/- 0.6 in CPVT patients and 0.4 +/- 0.3 in unaffected subjects (P = .009). Patients with most ventricular extrasystoles had a higher U-wave to T-wave amplitude ratio than those with fewest extrasystoles. Treatment with beta-blockers decreased U-wave amplitude at high heart rates. CPVT patients had longer TPE intervals than unaffected subjects at high heart rates, and beta-blocker treatment shortened their TPE intervals. CONCLUSION Present data support the hypothesis that U-waves associate with the DAD-triggered extrasystolic activity in CPVT patients. Patients with a RyR2 mutation show increased TPE at high heart rates. Beta-blocker treatment suppresses observed repolarization abnormalities in CPVT patients.
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Wilde AAM, Bhuiyan ZA, Crotti L, Facchini M, De Ferrari GM, Paul T, Ferrandi C, Koolbergen DR, Odero A, Schwartz PJ. Left cardiac sympathetic denervation for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. N Engl J Med 2008; 358:2024-9. [PMID: 18463378 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0708006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a potentially lethal disease characterized by adrenergically mediated ventricular arrhythmias manifested especially in children and teenagers. Beta-blockers are the cornerstone of therapy, but some patients do not have a complete response to this therapy and receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Given the nature of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, ICD shocks may trigger new arrhythmias, leading to the administration of multiple shocks. We describe the long-term efficacy of surgical left cardiac sympathetic denervation in three young adults with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, all of whom had symptoms before the procedure and were symptom-free afterward.
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Farwell D, Gollob MH. Electrical heart disease: Genetic and molecular basis of cardiac arrhythmias in normal structural hearts. Can J Cardiol 2008; 23 Suppl A:16A-22A. [PMID: 17668083 PMCID: PMC2786999 DOI: 10.1016/s0828-282x(07)71001-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Purely electrical heart diseases, defined by the absence of any structural cardiac defects, are responsible for a large number of sudden, unexpected deaths in otherwise healthy, young individuals. These conditions include the long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and the short QT syndrome. Collectively, these conditions have been referred to as channelopathies. Ion channels provide the molecular basis for cardiac electrical activity. These channels have specific ion selectivity and are responsible for the precise and timely regulation of the passage of charged ions across the cell membrane in myocytes, and the summation of their activity in cardiac muscle defines the surface electrocardiogram. Impairment in the flow of these ions in heart cells may mean the difference between a normal, prosperous life and the tragedy of a sudden, unexpected death due to ventricular arrhythmia. The present paper reviews the current clinical and molecular understanding of the electrical diseases of the heart associated with sudden cardiac death.
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- Arrhythmia Service, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
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- Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, and Departments of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario
- Correspondence: Dr Michael Gollob, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Room H350, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4W7. Telephone 613-761-5016, fax 613-761-5060, e-mail
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Lehnart SE, Ackerman MJ, Benson DW, Brugada R, Clancy CE, Donahue JK, George AL, Grant AO, Groft SC, January CT, Lathrop DA, Lederer WJ, Makielski JC, Mohler PJ, Moss A, Nerbonne JM, Olson TM, Przywara DA, Towbin JA, Wang LH, Marks AR. Inherited arrhythmias: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Office of Rare Diseases workshop consensus report about the diagnosis, phenotyping, molecular mechanisms, and therapeutic approaches for primary cardiomyopathies of gene mutations affecting ion channel function. Circulation 2007; 116:2325-45. [PMID: 17998470 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.107.711689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health organized a workshop (September 14 to 15, 2006, in Bethesda, Md) to advise on new research directions needed for improved identification and treatment of rare inherited arrhythmias. These included the following: (1) Na+ channelopathies; (2) arrhythmias due to K+ channel mutations; and (3) arrhythmias due to other inherited arrhythmogenic mechanisms. Another major goal was to provide recommendations to support, enable, or facilitate research to improve future diagnosis and management of inherited arrhythmias. Classifications of electric heart diseases have proved to be exceedingly complex and in many respects contradictory. A new contemporary and rigorous classification of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies is proposed. This consensus report provides an important framework and overview to this increasingly heterogeneous group of primary cardiac membrane channel diseases. Of particular note, the present classification scheme recognizes the rapid evolution of molecular biology and novel therapeutic approaches in cardiology, as well as the introduction of many recently described diseases, and is unique in that it incorporates ion channelopathies as a primary cardiomyopathy in consensus with a recent American Heart Association Scientific Statement.
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Clyde and Helen Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, P&S 9-401 box 22, 630 W 168 St, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Bhuiyan ZA, Hamdan MA, Shamsi ETA, Postma AV, Mannens MMAM, Wilde AAM, Al-Gazali L. A Novel Early Onset Lethal Form of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Maps to Chromosome 7p14-p22. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2007; 18:1060-6. [PMID: 17666061 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2007.00913.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Previously, autosomal dominant catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT [1]) was mapped to chromosome 1q42-43 with identification of pathogenic mutations in RYR2. Autosomal recessive CPVT (2) was mapped to chromosome 1p13-21, leading to the identification of mutations in CASQ2. In this study, we aimed to elucidate clinical phenotypes of a new variant of CPVT (3) in an inbred Arab family and also delineate the chromosomal location of the gene causing CPVT (3). METHODS AND RESULTS In a highly inbred family, clinical symptoms of CPVT appeared early in childhood (7-12 years) and in three of the four cases, the first appearance of symptoms turned into a fatal outcome. Parents of the affected children were first-degree cousins and without any symptoms. Segregation analysis suggested an autosomal recessive inheritance. A genome-wide search using polymorphic DNA markers mapped the disease locus to a 25-Mb interval on chromosome 7p14-p22. A maximal multipoint LOD score of 3.17 was obtained at marker D7S493. Sequencing of putative candidate genes, SP4, NPY, FKBP9, FKBP14, PDE1C, and TBX20, in and around this locus, did not reveal any mutation. CONCLUSIONS We have identified a novel highly malignant autosomal recessive form of CPVT and mapped this disorder to a 25-Mb interval on chromosome 7p14-p22.
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- Zahurul A Bhuiyan
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Bhuiyan ZA, van den Berg MP, van Tintelen JP, Bink-Boelkens MTE, Wiesfeld ACP, Alders M, Postma AV, van Langen I, Mannens MMAM, Wilde AAM. Expanding spectrum of human RYR2-related disease: new electrocardiographic, structural, and genetic features. Circulation 2007; 116:1569-76. [PMID: 17875969 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.107.711606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a disease characterized by ventricular arrhythmias elicited exclusively under adrenergic stress. Additional features include baseline bradycardia and, in some patients, right ventricular fatty displacement. The clinical spectrum is expanded by the 2 families described here. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixteen members from 2 separate families have been clinically evaluated and followed over the last 15 years. In addition to exercise-related ventricular arrhythmias, they showed abnormalities in sinoatrial node function, as well as atrioventricular nodal function, atrial fibrillation, and atrial standstill. Left ventricular dysfunction and dilatation was present in several affected individuals. Linkage analysis mapped the disease phenotype to a 4-cM region on chromosome 1q42-q43. Conventional polymerase chain reaction-based screening did not reveal a mutation in either the Ryanodine receptor 2 gene (RYR2) or ACTN2, the most plausible candidate genes in the region of interest. Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification and long-range polymerase chain reaction identified a genomic deletion that involved RYR2 exon-3, segregated in all the affected family members (n=16) in these 2 unlinked families. Further investigation revealed that the genomic deletion occurred in both families as a result of Alu repeat-mediated polymerase slippage. CONCLUSIONS This is the first report on a large genomic deletion in RYR2, which leads to extended clinical phenotypes (eg, sinoatrial node and atrioventricular node dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, atrial standstill, and dilated cardiomyopathy). These features have not previously been linked to RYR2.
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- Zahurul A Bhuiyan
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Rosso R, Kalman JM, Rogowski O, Diamant S, Birger A, Biner S, Belhassen B, Viskin S. Calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers versus beta-blockers alone for preventing exercise-induced arrhythmias in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Heart Rhythm 2007; 4:1149-54. [PMID: 17765612 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2007] [Accepted: 05/19/2007] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The mainstay of therapy for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is maximal doses of beta-blockers. However, although beta-blockers prevent exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT), most patients continue to have ventricular ectopy during exercise, and some studies report high mortality rates despite beta-blockade. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate whether combining a calcium channel blocker with beta-blockers would prevent ventricular arrhythmias during exercise better than beta-blockers alone since the mutations causing CPVT lead to intracellular calcium overload. METHODS Five patients with CPVT and one with polymorphic VT (PVT) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who had exercise-induced ventricular ectopy despite beta-blocker therapy were studied. Symptom-limited exercise was first performed during maximal beta-blocker therapy and repeated after addition of oral verapamil. RESULTS When comparing exercise during beta-blockers with exercise during beta-blockers + verapamil, exercise-induced arrhythmias were reduced: (1) Three patients had nonsustained VT on beta-blockers, and none of them had VT on combination therapy. (2) The number of ventricular ectopics during the whole exercise test went down from 78 +/- 59 beats to 6 +/- 8 beats; the ratio of ventricular ectopic to sinus beats during the 10-second period recorded at the time of the worst ventricular arrhythmia went down from 0.9 +/- 0.4 to 0.2 +/- 0.2. One patient with recurrent spontaneous VT leading to multiple shocks from her implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) despite maximal beta-blocker therapy (14 ICD shocks over 6 months while on beta-blockers) has remained free of arrhythmias (for 7 months) since the addition of verapamil therapy. CONCLUSIONS This preliminary evidence suggests that beta-blockers and calcium blockers could be better than beta-blockers alone for preventing exercise-induced arrhythmias in CPVT.
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- Rafael Rosso
- Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Kim E, Youn B, Kemper L, Campbell C, Milting H, Varsanyi M, Kang C. Characterization of human cardiac calsequestrin and its deleterious mutants. J Mol Biol 2007; 373:1047-57. [PMID: 17881003 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.08.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2007] [Revised: 08/17/2007] [Accepted: 08/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mutations of conserved residues of human cardiac calsequestrin (hCSQ2), a high-capacity, low-affinity Ca2+-binding protein in the sarcoplasmic reticulum, have been associated with catecholamine-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). In order to understand the molecular mechanism and pathophysiological link between these CPVT-related missense mutations of hCSQ2 and the resulting arrhythmias, we generated three CPVT-causing mutants of hCSQ2 (R33Q, L167H, and D307H) and two non-pathological mutants (T66A and V76M) and investigated the effect of these mutations. In addition, we determined the crystal structure of the corresponding wild-type hCSQ2 to gain insight into the structural effects of those mutations. Our data show clearly that all three CPVT-related mutations lead to significant reduction in Ca2+-binding capacity in spite of the similarity of their secondary structures to that of the wild-type hCSQ2. Light-scattering experiments indicate that the Ca2+-dependent monomer-polymer transitions of the mutants are quite different, confirming that the linear polymerization behavior of CSQ is linked directly to its high-capacity Ca2+ binding. R33Q and D307H mutations result in a monomer that appears to be unable to form a properly oriented dimer. On the other hand, the L167H mutant has a disrupted hydrophobic core in domain II, resulting in high molecular aggregates, which cannot respond to Ca2+. Although one of the non-pathological mutants, T66A, shares characteristics with the wild-type, the other null mutant, V76M, shows significantly altered Ca2+-binding and polymerization behaviors, calling for careful reconsideration of its status.
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- Eunjung Kim
- School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Mohamed U, Napolitano C, Priori SG. Molecular and Electrophysiological Bases of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2007; 18:791-7. [PMID: 17578347 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2007.00766.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited arrhythmogenic disorder characterized by adrenergically mediated polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Genetic investigations have identified two variants of the disease: an autosomal dominant form associated with mutations in the gene encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) and a recessive form associated with homozygous mutations in the gene encoding the cardiac isoform of calsequestrin (CASQ2). Functional characterization of mutations identified in the RyR2 and CASQ2 genes has demonstrated that CPVT are caused by derangements of the control of intracellular calcium. Investigations in a knock-in mouse model have shown that CPVT arrhythmias are initiated by delayed afterdepolarizations and triggered activity. In the present article, we review clinical and molecular understanding of CPVT and discuss the most recent approaches to develop novel therapeutic strategies for the disease.
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- Uwais Mohamed
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, London Health Science Centre, London, Canada
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This lecture examines the hypothesis that amplification of spatial dispersion of repolarization in the form of transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) underlies the development of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias associated with inherited ion channelopathies, including the long QT, short QT, and Brugada syndromes as well as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. In the long QT syndrome, amplification of TDR often is secondary to preferential prolongation of the action potential duration of M cells, whereas in Brugada syndrome, it is thought to be due to selective abbreviation of the action potential duration of right ventricular epicardium. In the short QT syndrome, preferential abbreviation of action potential duration of either endocardium or epicardium appears to be responsible for amplification of TDR. In catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, reversal of the direction of activation of the ventricular wall is responsible for the increase in TDR. Thus, the long QT, short QT, Brugada, and catecholaminergic ventricular tachycardia syndromes are pathologies with very different phenotypes and etiologies. However, these syndromes share a common final pathway in their predisposition to sudden cardiac death.
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Antzelevitch C. Role of spatial dispersion of repolarization in inherited and acquired sudden cardiac death syndromes. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007; 293:H2024-38. [PMID: 17586620 PMCID: PMC2085107 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00355.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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This review examines the role of spatial electrical heterogeneity within the ventricular myocardium on the function of the heart in health and disease. The cellular basis for transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) is reviewed, and the hypothesis that amplification of spatial dispersion of repolarization underlies the development of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias associated with inherited ion channelopathies is evaluated. The role of TDR in long QT, short QT, and Brugada syndromes, as well as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT), is critically examined. In long QT syndrome, amplification of TDR is often secondary to preferential prolongation of the action potential duration (APD) of M cells; in Brugada syndrome, however, it is thought to be due to selective abbreviation of the APD of the right ventricular epicardium. Preferential abbreviation of APD of the endocardium or epicardium appears to be responsible for the amplification of TDR in short QT syndrome. In catecholaminergic polymorphic VT, reversal of the direction of activation of the ventricular wall is responsible for the increase in TDR. In conclusion, long QT, short QT, Brugada, and catecholaminergic polymorphic VT syndromes are pathologies with very different phenotypes and etiologies, but they share a common final pathway in causing sudden cardiac death.
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- Charles Antzelevitch
- Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, 2150 Bleecker St., Utica, NY 13501-1787, USA.
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Ryanodine receptors (RyRs)/Ca2+ release channels, on the endoplasmic and sarcoplasmic reticulum of most cell types, are required for intracellular Ca2+ release involved in diverse cellular functions, including muscle contraction and neurotransmitter release. The large cytoplasmic domain of the RyR serves as a scaffold for proteins that bind to and modulate the channel's function and that comprise a macromolecular signaling complex. These proteins include calstabins [FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs)], calmodulin (CaM), phosphodiesterase, kinases, phosphatases, and their cognate targeting proteins. This review focuses on recent progress in the understanding of RyR regulation and disease mechanisms that are associated with channel dysfunction.
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- Ran Zalk
- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Triggered activity in cardiac muscle and intracellular Ca2+ have been linked in the past. However, today not only are there a number of cellular proteins that show clear Ca2+ dependence but also there are a number of arrhythmias whose mechanism appears to be linked to Ca2+-dependent processes. Thus we present a systematic review of the mechanisms of Ca2+ transport (forward excitation-contraction coupling) in the ventricular cell as well as what is known for other cardiac cell types. Second, we review the molecular nature of the proteins that are involved in this process as well as the functional consequences of both normal and abnormal Ca2+ cycling (e.g., Ca2+ waves). Finally, we review what we understand to be the role of Ca2+ cycling in various forms of arrhythmias, that is, those associated with inherited mutations and those that are acquired and resulting from reentrant excitation and/or abnormal impulse generation (e.g., triggered activity). Further solving the nature of these intricate and dynamic interactions promises to be an important area of research for a better recognition and understanding of the nature of Ca2+ and arrhythmias. Our solutions will provide a more complete understanding of the molecular basis for the targeted control of cellular calcium in the treatment and prevention of such.
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- Henk E D J Ter Keurs
- Department of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Iyer V, Hajjar RJ, Armoundas AA. Mechanisms of abnormal calcium homeostasis in mutations responsible for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Circ Res 2007; 100:e22-31. [PMID: 17234962 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.0000258468.31815.42] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a heritable arrhythmia unmasked by exertion or stress and is characterized by triggered activity and sudden cardiac death. In this study, we simulated mutations in 2 genes linked to catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, the first located in calsequestrin (CSQN2) and the second in the ryanodine receptor (RyR2). The aim of the study was to investigate the mechanistic basis for spontaneous Ca2+ release events that lead to delayed afterdepolarizations in affected patients. Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) luminal Ca2+ sensing was incorporated into a model of the human ventricular myocyte, and CSQN2 mutations were modeled by simulating disrupted RyR2 luminal Ca2+ sensing. In voltage-clamp mode, the mutant CSQN2 model recapitulated the smaller calcium transients, smaller time to peak calcium transient, and accelerated recovery from inactivation seen in experiments. In current clamp mode, in the presence of beta stimulation, we observed delayed afterdepolarizations, suggesting that accelerated recovery of RyR2 induced by impaired luminal Ca2+ sensing underlies the triggered activity observed in mutant CSQN2-expressing myocytes. In current-clamp mode, in a model of mutant RyR2 that is characterized by reduced FKBP12.6 binding to the RyR2 on beta stimulation, the impaired coupled gating characteristic of these mutations was modeled by reducing cooperativity of RyR2 activation. In current-clamp mode, the mutant RyR2 model exhibited increased diastolic RyR2 open probability that resulted in formation of delayed afterdepolarizations. In conclusion, these minimal order models of mutant CSQN2 and RyR2 provide plausible mechanisms by which defects in RyR2 gating may lead to the cellular triggers for arrhythmia, with implications for the development of targeted therapy.
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- Vivek Iyer
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Werdich AA, Baudenbacher F, Dzhura I, Jeyakumar LH, Kannankeril PJ, Fleischer S, LeGrone A, Milatovic D, Aschner M, Strauss AW, Anderson ME, Exil VJ. Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and abnormal Ca2+ handling in very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase null mice. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007; 292:H2202-11. [PMID: 17209005 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00382.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Patients with mutations in the mitochondrial very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD) gene are at risk for cardiomyopathy, myocardial dysfunction, ventricular tachycardia (VT), and sudden cardiac death. The mechanism is not known. Here we report a novel mechanism of VT in mice lacking VLCAD (VLCAD(-/-)). These mice exhibited polymorphic VT and increased incidence of VT after isoproterenol infusion. Polymorphic VT was induced in 10 out of 12 VLCAD(-/-) mice (83%) when isoproterenol was used. One out of 10 VLCAD(-/-) mice with polymorphic VT had VT with the typical bidirectional morphology. At the molecular level, VLCAD(-/-) cardiomyocytes showed increased levels of cardiac ryanodine receptor 2, phospholamban, and calsequestrin with increased [(3)H]ryanodine binding in heart microsomes. At the single cardiomyocyte level, VLCAD(-/-) cardiomyocytes showed significant increase in diastolic indo 1 and fura 2 fluorescence, with increased Ca(2+) transient amplitude. These changes were associated with altered Ca(2+) dynamics, to include: faster sarcomere contraction, larger time derivative of the upstroke, and shorter time-to-minimum sarcomere length compared with VLCAD(+/+) control cells. The L-type Ca(2+) current characteristics were not different under voltage-clamp conditions in the two VLCAD genotypes. Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) load measured as normalized integrated Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange current after rapid caffeine application was increased by 48% in VLCAD(-/-) cells. We conclude that intracellular Ca(2+) handling represents a possible molecular mechanism of arrhythmias in mice and perhaps in VLCAD-deficient humans.
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- Andreas A Werdich
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0001, USA
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Bezzina CR, Wilde AAM. Genetic Basis for Cardiac Arrhythmias. CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-715-2_126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Genetics of Inherited Arrhythmias. Cardiovasc Ther 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-1-4160-3358-5.50031-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Cardiac ryanodine receptor gene (hRyR2) mutation underlying catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in a Chinese adolescent presenting with sudden cardiac arrest and cardiac syncope. Chin Med J (Engl) 2006. [DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200612020-00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Mohamed U, Gollob MH, Gow RM, Krahn AD. Sudden cardiac death despite an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in a young female with catecholaminergic ventricular tachycardia. Heart Rhythm 2006; 3:1486-9. [PMID: 17161793 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2006] [Accepted: 08/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Uwais Mohamed
- Division of Cardiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Creighton W, Virmani R, Kutys R, Burke A. Identification of novel missense mutations of cardiac ryanodine receptor gene in exercise-induced sudden death at autopsy. J Mol Diagn 2006; 8:62-7. [PMID: 16436635 PMCID: PMC1867562 DOI: 10.2353/jmoldx.2006.050081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mutations in the cardiac ryanodine type 2 receptor (RyR2) gene are associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. We hypothesized that these mutations could be detected at autopsy in cases of exercise-triggered sudden death. Fourteen sudden death patients, eight males and six females, were studied at autopsy based on apparent sudden cardiac death, without significant anatomical abnormalities. The coding regions of arrhythmia genes were amplified by polymerase chain reaction and directly sequenced. Three novel RyR2 mutations, R414C, F2331S, and R2401L, were identified in three unrelated patients (two males and one female; mean age at death, 12 +/- 2 years), all performing strenuous activity at the time of death or collapse. These mutations were located in highly conserved regions where arrhythmia-linked RyR2 mutations clustered. Although G269S in the KVLQT1 gene was detected in a female with known family history of syncope and sudden cardiac death, no other mutations were found in any of the 14 cases, and no other mutations was found in 200 controls. The absence of structural cardiac disease in physical activity-induced sudden death and the finding of three novel RyR2 mutations suggest that mutation screening in such cases should include RyR2.
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- Wendy Creighton
- Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W. Baltimore St., Room 7-34C, Baltimore, MD 21201-1192, USA
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Scheinman MM, Lam J. Exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias in patients with no structural cardiac disease. Annu Rev Med 2006; 57:473-84. [PMID: 16409161 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.57.081704.090151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We review the clinical and genetic disorders associated with exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias in patients with normal hearts. Foremost are those with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia due to abnormalities in either the ryanodine receptor 2 genes (RyR2) or the calsequestrin genes (CASQ). These patients manifest ventricular premature beats and polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in response to exercise or on exposure to catecholamines. A great deal of basic information has been accumulated suggesting that these arrhythmias are caused by abnormalities in Ca2+ metabolism. The ensuing cytosolic Ca2+ overload results in delayed after-depolarizations and extrasystolic Ca2+ waves, leading to polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Most of these patients will respond to beta-blocker therapy but a significant minority (30%) will require a defibrillator. Advances in genetic testing allow better understanding of this syndrome.
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- Melvin M Scheinman
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
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Yano M, Yamamoto T, Ikeda Y, Matsuzaki M. Mechanisms of Disease: ryanodine receptor defects in heart failure and fatal arrhythmia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 3:43-52. [PMID: 16391617 DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2005] [Accepted: 09/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Abnormal regulation of intracellular Ca(2+) by sarcoplasmic reticulum plays a part in the mechanism underlying contractile and relaxation dysfunction in heart failure (HF). The protein-kinase-A-mediated hyperphosphorylation of ryanodine receptors in the sarcoplasmic reticulum has been shown to cause the dissociation of FKBP12.6 (also known as calstabin-2) from ryanodine receptors in HF. In addition, several disease-linked mutations in the ryanodine receptors have been reported in patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 2. The unique distribution of these mutation sites has led to the concept that the interaction among the putative regulatory domains within the ryanodine receptors has a key role in regulating channel opening. The knowledge gained from various studies of ryanodine receptors under pathologic conditions might lead to the development of new pharmacological or genetic strategies for the treatment of HF or cardiac arrhythmia. In this review, we focus on the role of the Ca(2+)-release channel, the ryanodine receptor, in the pathogenesis of HF and fatal arrhythmia, and the possibility of developing new therapeutic strategies for targeting this receptor.
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- Masafumi Yano
- Department of Medical Bioregulation, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan
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Wedekind H, Schulze-Bahr E, Debus V, Breithardt G, Brinkmann B, Bajanowski T. Cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death in infancy: implication for the medicolegal investigation. Int J Legal Med 2006; 121:245-57. [PMID: 16397808 DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0069-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2005] [Accepted: 11/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Genetically transmitted diseases are an important cause of juvenile sudden cardiac death (SCD). In a considerable proportion of individuals in which a medicolegal investigation is performed, structural heart disease is absent, and the medical examiner fails to discover an adequate cause of death. In such cases, an inherited arrhythmogenic disease should be considered, which manifests with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia or SCD. Molecular diagnosis is progressively becoming an important tool for these questions. Therefore, postmortem genetic testing ("molecular autopsy") should be considered as a part of the comprehensive medicolegal investigation in SCD cases without apparent structural heart disease. It will have implications not only for the deceased individual but also for living family members in preventing (further) cardiac events by expert counseling, appropriate lifestyle adjustment, and adequate treatment, if available.
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- Horst Wedekind
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 33, 48149 Münster, Germany.
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Amicuzi I, Cappelli F, Stortini M, Cherubini S, Pierro MM. Follow-up of neuropsychological function recovery in a 9-year-old girl with anoxic encephalopathy: a window on the brain re-organization processes. Brain Inj 2006; 19:371-88. [PMID: 16094785 DOI: 10.1080/02699050400004286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate comprehensive neuropsychological outcome, disabilities in daily life and individual recovery processes in a case of anoxic encephalopathy. DESIGN A 9-year-old child's functional outcome after anoxic coma was evaluated in a follow-up study with assessments at 5, 9 and 12 months post-injury. A comprehensive neuropsychological protocol was administered. Qualitative methods of analysis and ecological observation were associated with standard and non-standard quantitative measures. RESULTS The child presented pervasive functional deficits with prevalence of gnosic, praxic and self-regulatory dysfunction. Dissociated functional recovery was documented in 12 months time. Improvement of self-regulatory abilities was likely a 'propeller' of global system re-organization. CONCLUSION A descriptive longitudinal study of functional and ecological behavioural changes after anoxic coma provides insight into the re-adaptation processes in the brain connected to post-lesion ecological and training experiences. Contextual factors and their relations to functional improvements deserve further study.
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- I Amicuzi
- Department of Paediatric Rehabilitation, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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Priori SG, Napolitano C, Cerrone M. Experimental therapy of genetic arrhythmias: disease-specific pharmacology. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2006:267-86. [PMID: 16610348 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29715-4_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The integration between molecular biology and clinical practice requires the achievement of fundamental steps to link basic science to diagnosis and management of patients. In the last decade, the study of genetic bases of human diseases has achieved several milestones, and it is now possible to apply the knowledge that stems from the identification of the genetic substrate of diseases to clinical practice. The first step along the process of linking molecular biology to clinical medicine is the identification of the genetic bases of inherited diseases. After this important goal is achieved, it becomes possible to extend research to understand the functional impairments of mutant protein(s) and to link them to clinical manifestations (genotype-phenotype correlation). In genetically heterogeneous diseases, it may be possible to identify locus-specific risk stratification and management algorithms. Finally, the most ambitious step in the study of genetic disease is to discover a novel pharmacological therapy targeted at correcting the inborn defect (locus-specific therapy) or even to "cure" the DNA abnormality by replacing the defective gene with gene therapy. At present, this curative goal has been successful only for very few diseases. In the field of inherited arrhythmogenic diseases, several genes have been discovered, and genetics is now emerging as a source of information contributing not only to a better diagnosis but also to risk stratification and management of patients. The functional characterization of mutant proteins has opened new perspectives about the possibility of performing gene-specific or mutation-specific therapy. In this chapter, we will briefly summarize the genetic bases of inherited arrhythmogenic conditions and we will point out how the information derived from molecular genetics has influenced the "optimal use of traditional therapies" and has paved the way to the development of gene-specific therapy.
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- S G Priori
- Molecular Cardiology Laboratories, IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Via Ferrata 8, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Antzelevitch C, Oliva A. Amplification of spatial dispersion of repolarization underlies sudden cardiac death associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic VT, long QT, short QT and Brugada syndromes. J Intern Med 2006; 259:48-58. [PMID: 16336513 PMCID: PMC1474026 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2005.01587.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This review examines the hypothesis that amplification of spatial dispersion of repolarization in the form of transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) underlies the development of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias associated with inherited ion channelopathies including the long QT, short QT and Brugada syndromes as well as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. In the long QT syndrome, amplification of TDR is often secondary to preferential prolongation of the action potential duration (APD) of M cells, whereas in the Brugada syndrome, it is thought to be because of selective abbreviation of the APD of right ventricular epicardium. Preferential abbreviation of APD of either endocardium or epicardium appears to be responsible for amplification of TDR in the short QT syndrome. In catecholaminergic polymorphic VT, the reversal of the direction of activation of the ventricular wall is responsible for the increase in TDR. In conclusion, the long QT, short QT, Brugada and catecholaminergic VT syndromes are pathologies with very different phenotypes and aetiologies, but which share a common final pathway in causing sudden death.
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- C Antzelevitch
- Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica, NY 3501-1787, USA.
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Abstract
Cardiomyopathies are primary disorders of cardiac muscle associated with abnormalities of cardiac wall thickness, chamber size, contraction, relaxation, conduction, and rhythm. They are a major cause of morbidity and mortality at all ages and, like acquired forms of cardiovascular disease, often result in heart failure. Over the past two decades, molecular genetic studies of humans and analyses of model organisms have made remarkable progress in defining the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can result from mutations in 11 genes that encode sarcomere proteins, and dilated cardiomyopathy is caused by mutations at 25 chromosome loci where genes encoding contractile, cytoskeletal, and calcium regulatory proteins have been identified. Causes of cardiomyopathies associated with clinically important cardiac arrhythmias have also been discovered: Mutations in cardiac metabolic genes cause hypertrophy in association with ventricular pre-excitation and mutations causing arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia were recently discovered in protein constituents of desmosomes. This considerable genetic heterogeneity suggests that there are multiple pathways that lead to changes in heart structure and function. Defects in myocyte force generation, force transmission, and calcium homeostasis have emerged as particularly critical signals driving these pathologies. Delineation of the cell and molecular events triggered by cardiomyopathy gene mutations provide new fundamental knowledge about myocyte biology and organ physiology that accounts for cardiac remodeling and defines mechanistic pathways that lead to heart failure.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ferhaan Ahmad
- Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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