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A 45-year-old man with sudden cardiac death, cutaneous abnormalities and a rare desmoplakin mutation: a case report and literature review.
BMC cardiovascular disorders - 12 Feb 2022
Santos-Ferreira Cátia, Baptista Rui, Teixeira Tiago, Gonçalves Lino
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) is a rare, heritable myocardial disorder that is a leading cause of ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people. Desmoplakin (DSP) mutations account for 3-20% of AC cases. However, the number of patients with DSP mutations is extremely small in all published reports and genotype-phenotype correlations are scant and mostly non-gene-specific....
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