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RYR2 p.R169L mutation and left ventricular hypertrophy in a child with emotion-triggered sudden death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2020

Utkarsh Kohli*
Affiliation:
Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children’s Hospital and Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Lisa Kuntz
Affiliation:
Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Hemal M. Nayak
Affiliation:
Center for Arrhythmia Care, Heart & Vascular Center, Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
*
Author for correspondence: Utkarsh Kohli, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, 5481 S Maryland Ave., RM-C104E, MC 4051, Chicago, IL60637, USA. Tel: +1 773-702-6172; Fax: +1 773 702 2319. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a rare (prevalence: 1/10,000) channelopathy characterised by exercise-induced or emotion-triggered ventricular arrhythmias. There is an overall paucity of genotype-phenotype correlation studies in patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, and in vitro and in vivo effects of individual mutations have not been well characterised. We report an 8-year-old child who carried a mutation in the coding exon 8 of RYR2 (p.R169L) and presented with emotion-triggered sudden cardiac death. He was also found to have left ventricular hypertrophy, a combination which has not been reported before. We discuss the association between genetic variation in RYR2, particularly mutations causing replacement of arginine at position 169 of RYR2 and structural cardiac abnormalities.

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Brief Report
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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