Female infant with oncocytic cardiomyopathy and microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS): A clue to the pathogenesis of oncocytic cardiomyopathy?
✍ Scribed by Bird, Lynne M. ;Krous, Henry F. ;Eichenfield, Lawrence F. ;Swalwell, Christopher I. ;Jones, Marilyn C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 786 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
A infant girl had red stellate skin lesions on the cheeks and neck, and mildly short palpe-bra1 fissures. Her skin abnormality was typical of microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS), a newly recognized syndrome consisting of congenital linear skin defects and ocular abnormalities in females monosomic for Xp22. She died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 4 months; the cause of death was ascribed to oncocytic cardiomyopathy. Oncocytic cardiomyopathy occurs only in young children, who present with refractory arrhythmias leading to cardiac arrest. The coexistence of two rare conditions, one of which is mapped to the X chromosome, and an excess of affected females with oncocytic cardiomyopathy, make it likely that oncocytic cardiomyopathy is also Xlinked, with Xp22 being a candidate region. Overlapping manifestations in the two conditions (ocular abnormalities in cases of oncocytic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias in MLS) offer additional support for this hypothesis. @ 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.