Ventricular tachycardias and dilated cardiomyopathy caused by Fabry disease.
Women with Fabry disease are considered to have a good prognosis. Here we report the clinical history of a female patient with severe Fabry disease before and after referral to our hospital. She was diagnosed to have a cardiac variant of Fabry disease since a left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy revealed specific features of this disease and that cardiac involvement was the sole manifestation. She developed sustained ventricular tachycardia and dilated cardiomyopathy requiring oral administration of amiodarone and a cardiac defibrillator implant.
Igawa
Osamu
O
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Japan. oigawa@grape.med.tottori-u.ac.jp
Miake
Junichiro
J
Hisatome
Ichiro
I
D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000209:etiology*; D000795:Fabry Disease / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology*