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The perfect storm? Histiocytoid cardiomyopathy and compound CACNA2D1 and RANGRF mutation in a baby.
Cardiology in the young - 1 Jan 2015
Cataldo Stefania, Annoni Giuseppe A, Marziliano Nicola
Abstract excerpt
A female baby suffered from a rare association between histiocytoid cardiomyopathy, left ventricular non-compaction, and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome causing severe and recurrent arrhythmic storms. Antiarrhythmic drugs, radiofrequency ablation of Purkinje tissue, and sympathetic denervation were ineffective. The implant of a cardiac defibrillator allowed her to survive till heart transplant. Compound mutation...
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