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[Inherited metabolic cardiomyopathies].
Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) - 1 Mar 2007
Germain Dominique P, Linhart Ales, Desnos Michel, Hagège Alain A
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathies have an estimated prevalence of 1/500. The analysis of the genes coding for the 10 most commonly involved sarcomeric proteins, fails to detect a mutation in about one third of cases. In some of these cases, cardiomyopathy can be attributed to a genetics storage disease with enlarged glycogen vacuolss (PRKAG2 deficiency, Danon disease, Pompe disease) and/or lysosomol vacuoles (Donon...
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