Left ventricular noncompaction

Item Type:	Book Section
Title:	Left ventricular noncompaction
Creators Name:	Hoedemaekers, Y.M. and Klaassen, S.
Abstract:	LVNC is a relatively new, genetically heterogeneous, cardiomyopathy. Clinical presentation and prognosis range from asymptomatic disease with no or slow progression, to severe disabling, rapidly progressive cardiac failure. Initial presentation includes the triad of heart failure (potentially lethal) arrhythmias and/or thrombo-embolism. LVNC may occur at all ages, even prenatally. In childhood, clinical features are often more severe and LVNC is frequently associated with congenital heart defects. In adults, the majority of LVNC is isolated. The echocardiographic diagnostic criteria as proposed by Jenni et al. are currently the most widely applied. General cardiac guidelines for chronic heart failure and ICDs are applicable to the LVNC population. In approximately 40 % of isolated LVNC, molecular testing may yield a genetic (mostly sarcomere) defect, with MYH7 as the most prevalent disease gene. The nonisolated forms of LVNC are caused by a range of rare genetic defects. Until now, in half of familial isolated LVNC, the genetic defect remains unknown. Genetic defects in a large number of sarcomere and other cardiomyopathy genes and in genes primarily associated with skeletal myopathies indicate that LVNC may result from a wide range of pathophysiologic mechanisms. Shared genetic defects and familial aggregation of LVNC, HCM, and DCM indicates that LVNC may be part of a broad spectrum of cardiomyopathies. The genetic etiology of LVNC requires that patients and their relatives are offered genetic testing and counseling. This may include (predictive) molecular analysis of relatives, when applicable, and/or cardiac evaluation of at-risk relatives, even when they are as yet asymptomatic.
Keywords:	Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation, Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
Title of Book:	Clinical Cardiogenetics
ISBN:	978-3-319-44202-0
Publisher:	Springer
Page Range:	113-135
Number of Pages:	405
Date:	2 December 2016
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44203-7_7

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