Apoptosis, a useful marker in the management of hot-phase cardiomyopathy?
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AIMS: 'Hot phases', characterized by chest pain and troponin release, may represent the first clinical presentation of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies. Differential diagnosis with acute myocarditis is an unmet challenge for the clinicians. We sought to investigate histological and genetic features in patients with cardiomyopathy presenting with hot phases.
METHODS AND RESULTS: We evaluated a case series of consecutive patients hospitalized for suspected 'hot-phase cardiomyopathy' in two Italian centres from June 2017 to March 2022 (median follow-up 18 months) that underwent both endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) and genetic testing. Apoptosis was confirmed with TUNEL assay. Among the 17 enrolled patients (mean age 34 ± 15 years, 76% male), only six patients (35%) presented standard histological and immunohistochemical markers for significant cardiac inflammation at EMB. Conversely, apoptosis was found in 13 patients (77%). Genetic testing was positive for a pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variant in genes involved in cardiomyopathies (most frequently in DSP) in eight patients (48%), rising to 62% among patients with apoptosis on EMB. Notably, all patients without apoptosis tested negative for P/LP disease-related variants. Left ventricular ejection fraction was lower in patients showing apoptosis at EMB compared to those without (p = 0.003).
CONCLUSIONS: Apoptosis, rather than significant inflammation, was mostly prevalent in this case series of patients with 'hot-phase' presentation, especially in carriers of variants in cardiomyopathy-related genes. Detecting apoptosis on EMB might guide clinicians in performing genetic testing and in more tailored therapeutic choices in 'hot-phase cardiomyopathy'.
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2024 |
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024 |
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European journal of heart failure - (2024) vom: 27. Feb. |
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Englisch |
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Bassetto, Giulia [VerfasserIn] |
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Acute myocarditis |
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Date Revised 28.02.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status Publisher |
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10.1002/ejhf.3173 |
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| 520 | |a AIMS: 'Hot phases', characterized by chest pain and troponin release, may represent the first clinical presentation of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies. Differential diagnosis with acute myocarditis is an unmet challenge for the clinicians. We sought to investigate histological and genetic features in patients with cardiomyopathy presenting with hot phases | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS AND RESULTS: We evaluated a case series of consecutive patients hospitalized for suspected 'hot-phase cardiomyopathy' in two Italian centres from June 2017 to March 2022 (median follow-up 18 months) that underwent both endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) and genetic testing. Apoptosis was confirmed with TUNEL assay. Among the 17 enrolled patients (mean age 34 ± 15 years, 76% male), only six patients (35%) presented standard histological and immunohistochemical markers for significant cardiac inflammation at EMB. Conversely, apoptosis was found in 13 patients (77%). Genetic testing was positive for a pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variant in genes involved in cardiomyopathies (most frequently in DSP) in eight patients (48%), rising to 62% among patients with apoptosis on EMB. Notably, all patients without apoptosis tested negative for P/LP disease-related variants. Left ventricular ejection fraction was lower in patients showing apoptosis at EMB compared to those without (p = 0.003) | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: Apoptosis, rather than significant inflammation, was mostly prevalent in this case series of patients with 'hot-phase' presentation, especially in carriers of variants in cardiomyopathy-related genes. Detecting apoptosis on EMB might guide clinicians in performing genetic testing and in more tailored therapeutic choices in 'hot-phase cardiomyopathy' | ||
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