Article
Fabry disease in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie - 1 Dec 2002
Beer G, Reinecke P, Gabbert H E, Hort W, Kuhn H
Abstract excerpt
Fabry disease is an X-linked recessive lysosomal storage disorder with variable phenotype characterized by the accumulation of glycosphingolipid in various tissues. Unlike patients with the classical systemic Fabry disease entity, who present with multiple organ involvement, patients with a cardiac variant of Fabry disease are characterized mainly by myocardial hypertrophy. Therefore, the cardiac variant of Fabry...
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