Artigo Revisado por pares

Ventricular Tachycardias and Dilated Cardiomyopathy Caused by Fabry Disease

2005; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00241.x

ISSN

1540-8159

Autores

Osamu Igawa, Junichiro Miake, Ichiro Hisatome,

Tópico(s)

Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies

Resumo

Women with Fabry disease are considered to have a good prognosis. Here we report the clinical history of a female patient with severe Fabry disease before and after referral to our hospital. She was diagnosed to have a cardiac variant of Fabry disease since a left ventricular endmyocardial biopsy revealed specific features of this disease and that cardiac involvement was the sole manifestation. She developed sustained ventricular tachycardia and dilated cardiomyopathy requiring oral administration of amiodarone and a cardiac defibrillator implant.

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