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Heart 2003;89:e2; doi:10.1136/heart.89.1.e2
Copyright © 2003 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Cardiovascular Society
Heart 2003;89:e2-e2
© 2003 by Heart

CASE REPORT

Sisters with atypical Fabry’s disease with complete atrioventricular block

Y Doi, G Toda, K Yano

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Course of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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Yoshiyuki Doi, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Course of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan;
mikan{at}net2.nagasaki-u.ac.jp

ABSTRACT

A 56 year old woman with severe right heart failure and complete atrioventricular block was referred to hospital for further examination. Symptoms and signs suggestive of Fabry’s disease, such as corneal opacities, acroparaesthesias, hypohidrosis, and angiokeratoma, were not noted. Echocardiography showed a diffuse hypertrophic left ventricular wall and paradoxical movement of the interventricular septum. Cardiac catheterisation showed restrictive-type ventricular dysfunction. Left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy showed central vacuolar degeneration of myocytes with inclusion bodies, which had a concentric lamellar configuration under electron microscopy. This finding is specific for Fabry’s disease. The patient’s elder sister had experienced an almost identical clinical course and histological findings of myocardial cells on necropsy. In conclusion, two sisters were encountered displaying interesting cases of atypical Fabry’s disease. Symptoms began with complete atrioventricular block and histological myocardial findings were specific for Fabry’s disease.

Keywords: atypical Fabry’s disease; complete atrioventricular block; right heart failure; heterozygote


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