Clinical, genetic, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings in primary desminopathies |
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Authors: | Strach Katharina Sommer Torsten Grohé Christian Meyer Carsten Fischer Dirk Walter Maggie C Vorgerd Matthias Reilich Peter Bär Harald Reimann Jens Reuner Ulrike Germing Alfried Goebel Hans Hilmar Lochmüller Hanns Wintersperger Bernd Schröder Rolf |
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Affiliation: | Department of Radiology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany. Katharina_.Strach@ukb.uni-bonn.de |
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Abstract: | We report the clinical, genetic and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in 11 German patients with heterozygous E245D, D339Y, R350P and L377P desmin mutations and without cardiac symptoms. Clinical evaluation revealed a marked variability of skeletal muscle, respiratory and cardiac involvement even between patients with identical mutations, ranging from asymptomatic to severely affected. While echocardiography did not show any pathological findings in all 11 patients, cine MRI revealed focal left ventricular hypertrophy in 2 patients and MR delayed enhancement imaging displayed intramyocardial fibrosis in the left ventricle in 4 patients indicating early myocardial involvement. Our data argue against distinct genotype-phenotype correlations and suggest that comprehensive cardiac MRI is superior to conventional echocardiography for the detection of early and clinically asymptomatic stages of cardiomyopathy in desminopathy patients. Therefore, cardiac MRI may serve as a screening tool to identify patients at risk, which might benefit from early pharmacological and/or interventional (e.g. implantable cardioverter-defibrillator devices) therapy. |
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