The clinical and genetic spectrum of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: findings from an international multicentre registry.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2018
Publication Title
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
Keywords
Adolescent; Calsequestrin; Child; DNA Mutational Analysis; Death, Sudden, Cardiac; Female; Genetic Markers; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Heredity; Humans; Male; Models, Molecular; Mutation; Pedigree; Phenotype; Prognosis; Protein Conformation; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; Structure-Activity Relationship; Tachycardia, Ventricular
Abstract
Aims: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an ion channelopathy characterized by ventricular arrhythmia during exertion or stress. Mutations in RYR2-coded Ryanodine Receptor-2 (RyR2) and CASQ2-coded Calsequestrin-2 (CASQ2) genes underlie CPVT1 and CPVT2, respectively. However, prognostic markers are scarce. We sought to better characterize the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of CPVT, and utilize molecular modelling to help account for clinical phenotypes.
Methods and results: This is a Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society multicentre, retrospective cohort study of CPVT patients diagnosed at (82%) during 3.5 (1.4-5.3) years of follow-up. The majority (60%) had RyR2-associated CPVT1. Variant locations were predicted based on a 3D structural model of RyR2. Specific residues appear to have key structural importance, supported by an association between cardiac arrest and mutations in the intersubunit interface of the N-terminus, and the S4-S5 linker and helices S5 and S6 of the RyR2 C-terminus. In approximately one quarter of symptomatic patients, cardiac events were precipitated by only normal wakeful activities.
Conclusion: This large, multicentre study identifies contemporary challenges related to the diagnosis and prognostication of CPVT patients. Structural modelling of RyR2 can improve our understanding severe CPVT phenotypes. Wakeful rest, rather than exertion, often precipitated life-threatening cardiac events.
Clinical Institute
Cardiovascular (Heart)
Clinical Institute
Women & Children
Department
Cardiology
Department
Pediatrics
Recommended Citation
Roston, Thomas M; Yuchi, Zhiguang; Kannankeril, Prince J; Hathaway, Julie; Vinocur, Jeffrey M; Etheridge, Susan P; Potts, James E; Maginot, Kathleen R; Salerno, Jack C; Cohen, Mitchell I; Hamilton, Robert M; Pflaumer, Andreas; Mohammed, Saira; Kimlicka, Lynn; Kanter, Ronald J; LaPage, Martin J; Collins, Kathryn K; Gebauer, Roman A; Temple, Joel D; Batra, Anjan S; Erickson, Christopher; Miszczak-Knecht, Maria; Kubuš, Peter; Bar-Cohen, Yaniv; Kantoch, Michal; Thomas, Vincent C; Hessling, Gabriele; Anderson, Chris; Young, Ming-Lon; Choi, Sally H J; Cabrera Ortega, Michel; Lau, Yung R; Johnsrude, Christopher L; Fournier, Anne; Van Petegem, Filip; and Sanatani, Shubhayan, "The clinical and genetic spectrum of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: findings from an international multicentre registry." (2018). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 1050.
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