Clinical Features and Natural History of PRKAG2 Variant Cardiac Glycogenosis

Angela Lopez-Sainz, Fernando Dominguez, Luis Rocha Lopes, Juan Pablo Ochoa, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Vicente Climent, Marijke Linschoten, Coloma Tiron, Chiara Chiriatti, Nuno Marques, Torsten B Rasmussen, María Ángeles Espinosa, Roy Beinart, Giovanni Quarta, Sergi Cesar, Ella Field, Jose M Garcia-Pinilla, Zofia Bilinska, Alison R Muir, Angharad M RobertsEnrique Santas, Esther Zorio, Maria Luisa Peña-Peña, Marina Navarro, Adrian Fernandez, Julian Palomino-Doza, Olga Azevedo, Massimiliano Lorenzini, Maria I García-Álvarez, Dina Bento, Morten K Jensen, Irene Méndez, Laura Pezzoli, Georgia Sarquella-Brugada, Oscar Campuzano, Esther Gonzalez-Lopez, Jens Mogensen, Juan Pablo Kaski, Michael Arad, Ramon Brugada, Folkert W Asselbergs, Lorenzo Monserrat, Iacopo Olivotto, Perry M Elliott, Pablo Garcia-Pavia,

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: PRKAG2 gene variants cause a syndrome characterized by cardiomyopathy, conduction disease, and ventricular pre-excitation. Only a small number of cases have been reported to date, and the natural history of the disease is poorly understood.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe phenotype and natural history of PRKAG2 variants in a large multicenter European cohort.

METHODS: Clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic data from 90 subjects with PRKAG2 variants (53% men; median age 33 years; interquartile range [IQR]: 15 to 50 years) recruited from 27 centers were retrospectively studied.

RESULTS: At first evaluation, 93% of patients were in New York Heart Association functional class I or II. Maximum left ventricular wall thickness was 18 ± 8 mm, and left ventricular ejection fraction was 61 ± 12%. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) was present in 60 subjects (67%) at baseline. Thirty patients (33%) had ventricular pre-excitation or had undergone accessory pathway ablation; 17 (19%) had pacemakers (median age at implantation 36 years; IQR: 27 to 46 years), and 16 (18%) had atrial fibrillation (median age 43 years; IQR: 31 to 54 years). After a median follow-up period of 6 years (IQR: 2.3 to 13.9 years), 71% of subjects had LVH, 29% had AF, 21% required de novo pacemakers (median age at implantation 37 years; IQR: 29 to 48 years), 14% required admission for heart failure, 8% experienced sudden cardiac death or equivalent, 4% required heart transplantation, and 13% died.

CONCLUSIONS: PRKAG2 syndrome is a progressive cardiomyopathy characterized by high rates of atrial fibrillation, conduction disease, advanced heart failure, and life-threatening arrhythmias. Classical features of pre-excitation and severe LVH are not uniformly present, and diagnosis should be considered in patients with LVH who develop atrial fibrillation or require permanent pacemakers at a young age.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)186-197
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume76
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • AMP-Activated Protein Kinases/genetics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathies/diagnosis
  • Child
  • DNA Mutational Analysis
  • DNA/genetics
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Glycogen Storage Disease/diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mutation
  • Myocardium/metabolism
  • Phenotype
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Young Adult
  • pacemaker
  • PRKAG2
  • sudden cardiac death
  • heart failure
  • left ventricular hypertrophy
  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • glycogen-storage disease
  • pre-excitation

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