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Heritable Cardiomyopathies:
The Role of Genetics
in Heart Failure

Michael Arad MD
 
Heart Failure Service and Heart Institute
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
and Sackler School of Medicine,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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The Clinical Spectrum
of
familial Cardiomyopathies
  • Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy (ARVD)
  • Metabolic Cardiomyopathy
  • Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
  • Amyloidosis
  • Non-Compaction




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 Phenotypic variability in HCM
1. Asymmetric septal hypertrophy, SAM
 and outflow obstruction
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2. Cavity obliteration and Diastolic failure
in distal (“apical”) hypertrophy
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Noonan Syndrome
  • Common congenital anomaly 1: 1000-2500
  • Short stature, webbed neck, facial dysmorphia and heart defects
  • Congenital heart disease 136/157 (87%)
  • Autosomal dominant, PTPN11 mutations
  •  Tyrosine phosphatase playing a role in embryogenesis and hematogenesis
  • M/F ratio 2:1, ~ 50% de novo mutations
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Endocardial enhancement in Fabry
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Causes  of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
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Different mutations in Nuclear Lamina Protein (Lamin A/C) cause:
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • DCM with conduction system disease
  • Lipodystrophy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
  • Progeria
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DCM & Myopathy: Dystrophin Mutations
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Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (Dysplasia)
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Left Ventricular Non-Compaction
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Clinical and Genetic Features of LVNC
Murphy et al, Eur Heart J, 2005
  • Disorder of endomyocardial morphogenesis resulting in multiple trabeculations in LV myocardium.
  • High prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction, ventricular arrhythmia and systemic emboli.
  • 2/3 of LVNC patients had LV dilatation and systolic Dx. and 40% were initially diagnosed as DCM
  • Familial disease in > 50%. Phenotypic variability including excessive trabeculations, contractile dysfunction and ventricular arrhythmia.
  • Mutations in a-dystrobrevin and Cypher/ZASP –
  • proteins linking the cytoskeleton to extracellular matrix


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Left Ventricular Non-Compaction
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ACTC Glu101Lys mutation  in the Spanish families with apical HCM (Arad et al, Circulation 2005)
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ACTC mutation causes apical HCM, non-compaction and septal defects
(Monserrat et al, Eur Heart J,  2007)
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Etiology of  Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
  • Sporadic
  • Hypereosinophilia, Endomyocardial fibrosis,  Irradiation etc.
  • Infiltrative
  • Amyloidosis, Sarcoidosis, Iron overload
  • Familial
  • Phenotypic variant of familial HCM (troponin I)
  • Desmin mutations (± skeletal myopathy)
  • Metabolic cardiomyopathies (Fabry, Gaucher’s, etc.)


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Potential roles  of genetic diagnosis in familial cardiomyopathies
  • Define the disease causing gene mutation
    • - Establish genetic diagnosis


  • Genotype the family
  • - Diagnose borderline cases
  • - Identify asymptomatic carriers
  • - Prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis


  • Understand the molecular mechanisms
  • -  Develop specific therapy




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Linkage to genomic locus
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Treating Asymptomatic LV Dysfunction


  • Evidence based drug therapy