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Rashed HR, Milone M. The spectrum of rippling muscle disease. Muscle Nerve 2024. [PMID: 39370631 DOI: 10.1002/mus.28270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2024] [Revised: 09/16/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/08/2024]
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Rippling muscle disease (RMD) is a rare disorder of muscle hyperexcitability. It is characterized by rippling wave-like muscle contractions induced by mechanical stretch or voluntary contraction followed by sudden stretch, painful muscle stiffness, percussion-induced rapid muscle contraction (PIRC), and percussion-induced muscle mounding (PIMM). RMD can be hereditary (hRMD) or immune-mediated (iRMD). hRMD is caused by pathogenic variants in caveolin-3 (CAV3) or caveolae-associated protein 1/ polymerase I and transcript release factor (CAVIN1/PTRF). CAV3 pathogenic variants are autosomal dominant or less frequently recessive while CAVIN1/PTRF pathogenic variants are autosomal recessive. CAV3-RMD manifests with a wide spectrum of clinical phenotypes, ranging from asymptomatic creatine kinase elevation to severe muscle weakness. Overlapping phenotypes are common. Muscle caveolin-3 immunoreactivity is often absent or diffusely reduced in CAV3-RMD. CAVIN1/PTRF-RMD is characterized by congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL, type 4) and often accompanied by several extra-skeletal muscle manifestations. Muscle cavin-1/PTRF immunoreactivity is absent or reduced while caveolin-3 immunoreactivity is reduced, often in a patchy way, in CAVIN1/PTRF-RMD. iRMD is often accompanied by other autoimmune disorders, including myasthenia gravis. Anti-cavin-4 antibodies are the serological marker while the mosaic expression of caveolin-3 and cavin-4 is the pathological feature of iRMD. Most patients with iRMD respond to immunotherapy. Rippling, PIRC, and PIMM are usually electrically silent. Different pathogenic mechanisms have been postulated to explain the disease mechanisms. In this article, we review the spectrum of hRMD and iRMD, including clinical phenotypes, electrophysiological characteristics, myopathological findings, and pathogenesis.
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Khan MW, Raza SA, Raza M, Rogers E, Riel-Romero RMS. Coexistence of a Heterozygous Caveolin-3 Deletion and a Novel Dystrophin Gene Mutation in a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient. Cureus 2023; 15:e34704. [PMID: 36909082 PMCID: PMC9995560 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.34704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Inherited muscular abnormalities are debilitating disorders that greatly diminish the quality of life in affected individuals. Mutations in proteins such as dystrophin and caveolin, which together with other proteins form structural connections between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix, are frequently the culprit of muscular dystrophies. In this case report, we describe a patient with a novel pathogenic dystrophin mutation co-existing with a caveolin-3 deletion. While genetically composed of this unique combination, the patient phenotypically presented with a primary clinical manifestation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in contrast to other cases of dual mutations in dystrophin and dystrophin-associated proteins.
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- Neurology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA
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- Neurology, Ziauddin University, Karachi, PAK
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- Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
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Harada Y, Wang SH, Juel VC. Clinical Reasoning: A 36-Year-Old Man With Asymmetric Muscle Weakness. Neurology 2022; 99:1057-1061. [PMID: 36130838 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000201379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Yohei Harada
- From the Department of Neurology (Y.H., S.-H.W., V.C.J.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Department of Pathology (S.-H.W.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
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- From the Department of Neurology (Y.H., S.-H.W., V.C.J.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Department of Pathology (S.-H.W.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- From the Department of Neurology (Y.H., S.-H.W., V.C.J.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Department of Pathology (S.-H.W.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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Cotta A, Carvalho E, da-Cunha-Júnior AL, Valicek J, Navarro MM, Junior SB, da Silveira EB, Lima MI, Cordeiro BA, Cauhi AF, Menezes MM, Nunes SV, Vargas AP, Neto RX, Paim JF. Muscle biopsy essential diagnostic advice for pathologists. SURGICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1186/s42047-020-00085-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background
Muscle biopsies are important diagnostic procedures in neuromuscular practice. Recent advances in genetic analysis have profoundly modified Myopathology diagnosis.
Main body
The main goals of this review are: (1) to describe muscle biopsy techniques for non specialists; (2) to provide practical information for the team involved in the diagnosis of muscle diseases; (3) to report fundamental rules for muscle biopsy site choice and adequacy; (4) to highlight the importance of liquid nitrogen in diagnostic workup. Routine techniques include: (1) histochemical stains and reactions; (2) immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence; (3) electron microscopy; (4) mitochondrial respiratory chain enzymatic studies; and (5) molecular studies. The diagnosis of muscle disease is a challenge, as it should integrate data from different techniques.
Conclusion
Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded muscle samples alone almost always lead to inconclusive or unspecific results. Liquid nitrogen frozen muscle sections are imperative for neuromuscular diagnosis. Muscle biopsy interpretation is possible in the context of detailed clinical, neurophysiological, and serum muscle enzymes data. Muscle imaging studies are strongly recommended in the diagnostic workup. Muscle biopsy is useful for the differential diagnosis of immune mediated myopathies, muscular dystrophies, congenital myopathies, and mitochondrial myopathies. Muscle biopsy may confirm the pathogenicity of new gene variants, guide cost-effective molecular studies, and provide phenotypic diagnosis in doubtful cases. For some patients with mitochondrial myopathies, a definite molecular diagnosis may be achieved only if performed in DNA extracted from muscle tissue due to organ specific mutation load.
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Chen JM, Lin JH, Masson E, Liao Z, Férec C, Cooper DN, Hayden M. The Experimentally Obtained Functional Impact Assessments of 5' Splice Site GT'GC Variants Differ Markedly from Those Predicted. Curr Genomics 2020; 21:56-66. [PMID: 32655299 PMCID: PMC7324893 DOI: 10.2174/1389202921666200210141701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Introduction: 5' splice site GT>GC or +2T>C variants have been frequently reported to cause human genetic disease and are routinely scored as pathogenic splicing mutations. However, we have recently demonstrated that such variants in human disease genes may not invariably be pathogenic. Moreover, we found that no splicing prediction tools appear to be capable of reliably distinguishing those +2T>C variants that generate wild-type transcripts from those that do not. Methodology Herein, we evaluated the performance of a novel deep learning-based tool, SpliceAI, in the context of three datasets of +2T>C variants, all of which had been characterized functionally in terms of their impact on pre-mRNA splicing. The first two datasets refer to our recently described “in vivo” dataset of 45 known disease-causing +2T>C variants and the “in vitro” dataset of 103 +2T>C substitutions subjected to full-length gene splicing assay. The third dataset comprised 12 BRCA1 +2T>C variants that were recently analyzed by saturation genome editing. Results Comparison of the SpliceAI-predicted and experimentally obtained functional impact assessments of these variants (and smaller datasets of +2T>A and +2T>G variants) revealed that although SpliceAI performed rather better than other prediction tools, it was still far from perfect. A key issue was that the impact of those +2T>C (and +2T>A) variants that generated wild-type transcripts represents a quantitative change that can vary from barely detectable to an almost full expression of wild-type transcripts, with wild-type transcripts often co-existing with aberrantly spliced transcripts. Conclusion Our findings highlight the challenges that we still face in attempting to accurately identify splice-altering variants.
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- Jian-Min Chen
- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- 1EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200Brest, France; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China; 4CHRU Brest, Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, Brest, France; 5Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Lin JH, Tang XY, Boulling A, Zou WB, Masson E, Fichou Y, Raud L, Le Tertre M, Deng SJ, Berlivet I, Ka C, Mort M, Hayden M, Leman R, Houdayer C, Le Gac G, Cooper DN, Li ZS, Férec C, Liao Z, Chen JM. First estimate of the scale of canonical 5' splice site GT>GC variants capable of generating wild-type transcripts. Hum Mutat 2019; 40:1856-1873. [PMID: 31131953 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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It has long been known that canonical 5' splice site (5'SS) GT>GC variants may be compatible with normal splicing. However, to date, the actual scale of canonical 5'SSs capable of generating wild-type transcripts in the case of GT>GC substitutions remains unknown. Herein, combining data derived from a meta-analysis of 45 human disease-causing 5'SS GT>GC variants and a cell culture-based full-length gene splicing assay of 103 5'SS GT>GC substitutions, we estimate that ~15-18% of canonical GT 5'SSs retain their capacity to generate between 1% and 84% normal transcripts when GT is substituted by GC. We further demonstrate that the canonical 5'SSs in which substitution of GT by GC-generated normal transcripts exhibit stronger complementarity to the 5' end of U1 snRNA than those sites whose substitutions of GT by GC did not lead to the generation of normal transcripts. We also observed a correlation between the generation of wild-type transcripts and a milder than expected clinical phenotype but found that none of the available splicing prediction tools were capable of reliably distinguishing 5'SS GT>GC variants that generated wild-type transcripts from those that did not. Our findings imply that 5'SS GT>GC variants in human disease genes may not invariably be pathogenic.
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- Jin-Huan Lin
- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France.,Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France.,CHU Brest, Service de Génétique, Brest, France
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France.,CHU Brest, Service de Génétique, Brest, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique du Cancer, Centre François Baclesse, Caen, France.,Department of Genetics, F76000 and Normandy University, UNIROUEN, Inserm U1245, Normandy Centre for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Department of Genetics, F76000 and Normandy University, UNIROUEN, Inserm U1245, Normandy Centre for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France.,CHU Brest, Service de Génétique, Brest, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- EFS, Univ Brest, Inserm, UMR 1078, GGB, F-29200, Brest, France
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Liewluck T, Milone M. Untangling the complexity of limb-girdle muscular dystrophies. Muscle Nerve 2018; 58:167-177. [PMID: 29350766 DOI: 10.1002/mus.26077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a group of genetically heterogeneous, autosomal inherited muscular dystrophies with a childhood to adult onset, manifesting with hip- and shoulder-girdle muscle weakness. When the term LGMD was first conceptualized in 1954, it was thought to be a single entity. Currently, there are 8 autosomal dominant (LGMD1A-1H) and 26 autosomal recessive (LGMD2A-2Z) variants according to the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database. In addition, there are other genetically identified muscular dystrophies with an LGMD phenotype not yet classified as LGMD. This highlights the entanglement of LGMDs, which represents an area in continuous expansion. Herein we aim to simplify the complexity of LGMDs by subgrouping them on the basis of the underlying defective protein and impaired function. Muscle Nerve 58: 167-177, 2018.
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- Teerin Liewluck
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, USA
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Cotta A, Paim JF, Carvalho E, da-Cunha-Júnior AL, Navarro MM, Valicek J, Menezes MM, Nunes SV, Xavier-Neto R, Baptista S, Lima LR, Takata RI, Vargas AP. The relative frequency of common neuromuscular diagnoses in a reference center. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 2017; 75:789-795. [PMID: 29236822 DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20170151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
Abstract
The diagnostic procedure in neuromuscular patients is complex. Knowledge of the relative frequency of neuromuscular diseases within the investigated population is important to allow the neurologist to perform the most appropriate diagnostic tests. OBJECTIVE To report the relative frequency of common neuromuscular diagnoses in a reference center. METHODS A 17-year chart review of patients with suspicion of myopathy. RESULTS Among 3,412 examinations, 1,603 (46.98%) yielded confirmatory results: 782 (48.78%) underwent molecular studies, and 821 (51.21%) had muscle biopsies. The most frequent diagnoses were: dystrophinopathy 460 (28.70%), mitochondriopathy 330 (20.59%), spinal muscular atrophy 158 (9.86%), limb girdle muscular dystrophy 157 (9.79%), Steinert myotonic dystrophy 138 (8.61%), facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 99 (6.17%), and other diagnoses 261 (16.28%). CONCLUSION Using the presently-available diagnostic techniques in this service, a specific limb girdle muscular dystrophy subtype diagnosis was reached in 61% of the patients. A neuromuscular-appropriate diagnosis is important for genetic counseling, rehabilitation orientation, and early treatment of respiratory and cardiac complications.
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- Ana Cotta
- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Patologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Patologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurofisiologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurofisiologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Patologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Informática, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Brasília DF, Brasil
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- Rede SARAH de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Departamento de Neurologia, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
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Macias A, Gambin T, Szafranski P, Jhangiani SN, Kolasa A, Obersztyn E, Lupski JR, Stankiewicz P, Kaminska A. CAV3 mutation in a patient with transient hyperCKemia and myalgia. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2016; 50:468-473. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pjnns.2016.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2015] [Revised: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Chen J, Zeng W, Han C, Wu J, Zhang H, Tong X. Mutation in the caveolin-3 gene causes asymmetrical distal myopathy. Neuropathology 2016; 36:485-489. [PMID: 26947586 DOI: 10.1111/neup.12297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2016] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mutations in the gene encoding caveolin-3 (CAV3) can cause a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes, including limb girdle muscular dystrophy, rippling muscle disease, distal myopathy (MD), idiopathic persistent elevation of serum creatine kinase and cardiomyopathy. MD is a relatively rare subtype of caveolinopathy. Here, we report a sporadic case of a middle-aged female Chinese patient with MD in which a CAV3 mutation was identical to that previously reported in cases of rippling muscle disease. T1-weighted enhanced skeletal muscle MRI of the lower limbs showed an abnormal signal in the distal and proximal muscles. A muscle biopsy revealed moderate dystrophic changes, and immunohistochemical staining showed reduced CAV-3 expression in the plasmalemma. Genetic analysis revealed a heterozygous c.136G > A (p.Ala46Thr) CAV3 mutation that appeared to be de novo because it was absent from the patient's parents. This study suggested that the CAV3 c.136G > A (p.Ala46Thr) mutation can cause MD as well as different phenotypes in different individuals, suggesting that additional unknown loci must affect the disease phenotypes.
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- Juanjuan Chen
- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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Cardiomyopathy in neurological disorders. Cardiovasc Pathol 2013; 22:389-400. [PMID: 23433859 DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2012.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2012] [Revised: 12/26/2012] [Accepted: 12/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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According to the American Heart Association, cardiomyopathies are classified as primary (solely or predominantly confined to heart muscle), secondary (those showing pathological myocardial involvement as part of a neuromuscular disorder) and those in which cardiomyopathy is the first/predominant manifestation of a neuromuscular disorder. Cardiomyopathies may be further classified as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, or unclassified cardiomyopathy (noncompaction, Takotsubo-cardiomyopathy). This review focuses on secondary cardiomyopathies and those in which cardiomyopathy is the predominant manifestation of a myopathy. Any of them may cause neurological disease, and any of them may be a manifestation of a neurological disorder. Neurological disease most frequently caused by cardiomyopathies is ischemic stroke, followed by transitory ischemic attack, syncope, or vertigo. Neurological disease, which most frequently manifests with cardiomyopathies are the neuromuscular disorders. Most commonly associated with cardiomyopathies are muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies, congenital myopathies and metabolic myopathies. Management of neurological disease caused by cardiomyopathies is not at variance from the same neurological disorders due to other causes. Management of secondary cardiomyopathies is not different from that of cardiomyopathies due to other causes either. Patients with neuromuscular disorders require early cardiologic investigations and close follow-ups, patients with cardiomyopathies require neurological investigation and avoidance of muscle toxic medication if a neuromuscular disorder is diagnosed. Which patients with cardiomyopathy profit most from primary stroke prevention is unsolved and requires further investigations.
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Ullrich ND, Fischer D, Kornblum C, Walter MC, Niggli E, Zorzato F, Treves S. Alterations of excitation-contraction coupling and excitation coupled Ca(2+) entry in human myotubes carrying CAV3 mutations linked to rippling muscle. Hum Mutat 2011; 32:309-17. [PMID: 21294223 PMCID: PMC3132216 DOI: 10.1002/humu.21431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 12/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
Rippling muscle disease is caused by mutations in the gene encoding caveolin-3 (CAV3), the muscle-specific isoform of the scaffolding protein caveolin, a protein involved in the formation of caveolae. In healthy muscle, caveolin-3 is responsible for the formation of caveolae, which are highly organized sarcolemmal clusters influencing early muscle differentiation, signalling and Ca2+ homeostasis. In the present study we examined Ca2+ homeostasis and excitation–contraction (E-C) coupling in cultured myotubes derived from two patients with Rippling muscle disease with severe reduction in caveolin-3 expression; one patient harboured the heterozygous c.84C>A mutation while the other patient harbored a homozygous splice-site mutation (c.102+ 2T>C) affecting the splice donor site of intron 1 of the CAV3 gene. Our results show that cells from control and rippling muscle disease patients had similar resting [Ca2+]i and 4-chloro-m-cresol-induced Ca2+ release but reduced KCl-induced Ca2+ influx. Detailed analysis of the voltage-dependence of Ca2+ transients revealed a significant shift of Ca2+ release activation to higher depolarization levels in CAV3 mutated cells. High resolution immunofluorescence analysis by Total Internal Fluorescence microscopy supports the hypothesis that loss of caveolin-3 leads to microscopic disarrays in the colocalization of the voltage-sensing dihydropyridine receptor and the ryanodine receptor, thereby reducing the efficiency of excitation–contraction coupling. Hum Mutat 32:309–317, 2011. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- Nina D Ullrich
- Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Catteruccia M, Sanna T, Santorelli FM, Tessa A, Di Giacopo R, Sauchelli D, Verbo A, Lo Monaco M, Servidei S. Rippling muscle disease and cardiomyopathy associated with a mutation in the CAV3 gene. Neuromuscul Disord 2009; 19:779-83. [PMID: 19773168 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2009.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2009] [Revised: 08/08/2009] [Accepted: 08/27/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Caveolin-3, the myocyte-specific isoform of caveolins, is preferentially expressed in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles. Mutations in the CAV3 gene cause clinically heterogeneous neuromuscular disorders, including rippling muscle disease, or cardiopathies. The same mutation may lead to different phenotypes, but cardiac and muscle involvement rarely coexists suggesting that the molecular network acting with caveolin-3 in skeletal muscle and heart may differ. Here we describe an Italian family (a father and his two sons) with clinical and neurophysiological features of rippling muscle disease and heart involvement characterized by atrio-ventricular conduction defects and dilated cardiomyopathy. Muscle biopsy showed loss of caveolin-3 immunosignal. Molecular studies identified the p.A46V mutation in CAV3 previously reported in a German family with autosomal dominant rippling muscle disease and sudden death in few individuals. We suggest that cardiac dysfunction in myopathic patients with CAV3 mutations may be underestimated and recommend a more thorough evaluation for the presence of cardiomyopathy and potentially lethal arrhythmias.
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- Michela Catteruccia
- Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Catholic University, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
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In muscle tissue the protein caveolin-3 forms caveolae--flask-shaped invaginations localized on the cytoplasmic surface of the sarcolemmal membrane. Caveolae have a key role in the maintenance of plasma membrane integrity and in the processes of vesicular trafficking and signal transduction. Mutations in the caveolin-3 gene lead to skeletal muscle pathology through multiple pathogenetic mechanisms. Indeed, caveolin-3 deficiency is associated to sarcolemmal membrane alterations, disorganization of skeletal muscle T-tubule network and disruption of distinct cell-signaling pathways. To date, there have been 30 caveolin-3 mutations identified in the human population. Caveolin-3 defects lead to four distinct skeletal muscle disease phenotypes: limb girdle muscular dystrophy, rippling muscle disease, distal myopathy, and hyperCKemia. In addition, one caveolin-3 mutant has been described in a case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Many patients show an overlap of these symptoms and the same mutation can be linked to different clinical phenotypes. This variability can be related to additional genetic or environmental factors. This review will address caveolin-3 biological functions in muscle cells and will describe the muscle and heart disease phenotypes associated with caveolin-3 mutations.
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Myopathies are frequently not confined to the skeletal muscles but also involve other organs or tissues. One of the most frequently affected organ in addition to the skeletal muscle is the heart (cardiac involvement, CI). CI manifests as impulse generation or conduction defects, focal or diffuse myocardial thickening, dilation of the cardiac cavities, relaxation abnormality, hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive cardiomyopathy, apical form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, noncompaction, Takotsubo phenomenon, secondary valve insufficiency, intra-cardiac thrombus formation, or heart failure with systolic or diastolic dysfunction. CI occurs in dystrophinopathies, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, limb girdle muscular dystrophies, laminopathies, congenital muscular dystrophies, myotonic dystrophies, congenital myopathies, metabolic myopathies, desminopathies, myofibrillar myopathy, Barth syndrome, McLeod syndrome, Senger's syndrome, and Bethlem myopathy. Patients with myopathy should be cardiologically investigated as soon as their neurological diagnosis is established, since supportive cardiac therapy is available, which markedly influences prognosis and outcome of CI in these patients.
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Aboumousa A, Hoogendijk J, Charlton R, Barresi R, Herrmann R, Voit T, Hudson J, Roberts M, Hilton-Jones D, Eagle M, Bushby K, Straub V. Caveolinopathy--new mutations and additional symptoms. Neuromuscul Disord 2008; 18:572-8. [PMID: 18583131 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2008] [Revised: 05/01/2008] [Accepted: 05/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mutations in the caveolin-3 gene (CAV3) can lead to a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes. Phenotypes that have so far been associated with primary caveolin-3 deficiency include limb girdle muscular dystrophy, rippling muscle disease, distal myopathy and hyperCKaemia. This is the first report describing the clinical, pathological and genetic features of patients with caveolinopathy from the UK. Ten patients (six families) were identified via the National Commissioning Group (NCG) service for patients with limb girdle muscle dystrophy in Newcastle. Myalgia was the most prominent symptom in our cohort of patients and for 50% it was the reason for referral. Muscle weakness was only found in 60% of the patients, whereas rippling muscle movement was present in 80%. One of the patients reported episodes of myoglobinuria and another one episodes of hypoglycaemia. Five different mutations were identified, two of which were novel and three that had previously been described. Caveolinopathy needs to be considered as a differential diagnosis in a range of clinical situations, including in patients who do not have any weakness. Indeed, rippling muscles are a more frequent symptom than weakness, and can be detected in childhood. Presentation with myalgia is common and management of it as well as of myoglobinuria and hypoglycaemia may have a major impact on the patients' quality of life.
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- Ahmed Aboumousa
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ, UK
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Bibliography. Current world literature. Neuro-muscular diseases: nerve. Curr Opin Neurol 2007; 20:600-4. [PMID: 17885452 DOI: 10.1097/wco.0b013e3282efeb3b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ueyama H, Horinouchi H, Obayashi K, Hashinaga M, Okazaki T, Kumamoto T. Novel homozygous mutation of the caveolin-3 gene in rippling muscle disease with extraocular muscle paresis. Neuromuscul Disord 2007; 17:558-61. [PMID: 17537631 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2007.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2006] [Revised: 12/12/2006] [Accepted: 03/15/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We describe a 39-year-old Japanese man with rippling muscle disease who carried a novel homozygous mutation (Trp70 to a stop codon) in the caveolin-3 gene. The patient also had extraocular muscle paresis showing atrophy of the extraocular muscles on orbital MRI. The involvement of the extraocular muscles of patients with caveolinopathy is discussed.
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- H Ueyama
- Division of Neurology and Neuromuscular Disorders, Department of Brain and Nerve Science, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Hasama-machi, Yufu City, Oita 879-5593, Japan.
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