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Cardiomyopathies are complex myocardial diseases characterized by inappropriate ventricular hypertrophy (HCM) or dilation (DCM). Both disorders may lead to sudden death or progressive heart failure and exhibit familial aggregation with marked genetic heterogeneity. Many candidate genes were identified by linkage analysis, experimental animal studies, and expression analysis. A systematic assessment of the prevalence of different mutations in these genes requires high-throughput analyses. In this paper, we present a simple and reliable protocol for mutation screening by heteroduplex analysis which reduced costs and workload of sequencing. Employing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), 11 known and 14 potential candidate genes for HCM and DCM were analyzed. DGGE assays allowed analysis of 286 of the 312 protein coding exons, performing only four alternative polymerase chain reaction protocols and only two different DGGE analysis conditions. Sensitivity for the detection of heteroduplexes proved excellent, even for GC-rich DNA fragments, which were analyzed by a combination of DGGE and constant denaturant gel electrophoresis. To confirm DGGE sensitivity in cases where no variants in our human DNA samples could be observed, we generated heteroduplexes from homologous human and chimpanzee DNA. The platform proved a valuable contribution to elucidating the genetic causes of DCM and HCM as demonstrated by the identification of 17 different known and novel mutations and 98 different polymorphisms in our setting.
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PMID:Large-scale mutation screening in patients with dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a pilot study using DGGE. 1671 12

Integrins play a pivotal role in cardiomyocyte survival and function, with integrin loss leading to myocyte apoptosis and heart failure. The aim of this study was to characterize whether regulation of integrins may contribute to cardiac remodeling in human ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Myocardial tissues of the left ventricle were obtained from patients with ICM (n = 8) undergoing cardiac transplantation and from unused donor hearts (NF, n = 8). In addition, tissue samples from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM, n = 5) were analyzed. Expression of integrins beta(1)D and beta(3), the effector proteins focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and melusin, and FAK phosphorylation were examined by Western blotting, real-time-PCR and immunofluorescence analysis, respectively. Beta(1)D-integrin protein was decreased in ICM vs. NF by 36%. Beta(1)D-integrin mRNA levels and beta(1)D-integrin shedding were unchanged. Corresponding to beta(1)D-integrin regulation, FAK and phosphorylated FAK were decreased in ICM vs. NF by 54% and 49%, respectively. beta(3)-integrin and melusin were not altered in ICM. As a mediator of integrin effects, AKT kinase activity was examined. In parallel to beta(1)D-integrin and FAK, AKT activity was decreased in ICM by 44%. In contrast, none of the proteins were significantly altered in DCM compared to NF. Integrins and integrin signaling are regulated differentially in ICM and DCM with a decrease of beta(1)D-integrin and FAK in ICM. The loss of the beta(1)Dintegrin-FAK-complex in ICM was paralleled by a reduced AKT activity supporting in vitro data which demonstrate the pivotal role of intact integrin function in anti-apoptotic signaling and cell survival.
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PMID:Loss of beta1D-integrin function in human ischemic cardiomyopathy. 1718 62

Mutations in the lamin A/C gene seem to be important aetiological factors in familial DCM. Heart disease caused by lamin A/C gene mutations is characterised by conduction system disorders with the need for permanent pacemaker implantations, atrial fibrillation, severe heart failure, and increased risk for sudden cardiac death. We described an asymptomatic 28-year-old man with a R190W lamin A/C gene mutation and mild left ventricular enlargement and near normal left ventricular ejection fraction who suffered from sudden cardiac death during sleeping. His electrocardiogram did not show conduction system disease and the most remarkable finding was a progressive decrease in voltage, which may be a marker of disease progression. The case study's mother had a similar phenotype to this and also had died suddenly. Sudden cardiac death in some lamin A/C gene mutations may occur even before the development of severe left ventricular dysfunction and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator should be early considered.
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PMID:Sudden death in a patient with lamin A/C gene mutation and near normal left ventricular systolic function. 1744 30

MicroRNAs are recently discovered regulators of gene expression and are becoming increasingly recognized as important regulators of heart function. Genome-wide profiling of microRNAs in human heart failure has not been reported previously. We measured expression of 428 microRNAs in 67 human left ventricular samples belonging to control (n = 10), ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM, n = 19), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM, n = 25), or aortic stenosis (AS, n = 13) diagnostic groups. miRNA expression between disease and control groups was compared by ANOVA with Dunnett's post hoc test. We controlled for multiple testing by estimating the false discovery rate. Out of 428 microRNAs measured, 87 were confidently detected; 43 were differentially expressed in at least one disease group. In supervised clustering, microRNA expression profiles correctly grouped samples by their clinical diagnosis, indicating that microRNA expression profiles are distinct between diagnostic groups. This was further supported by class prediction approaches, in which the class (control, ICM, DCM, AS) predicted by a microRNA-based classifier matched the clinical diagnosis 69% of the time (P < 0.001). These data show that expression of many microRNAs is altered in heart disease and that different types of heart disease are associated with distinct changes in microRNA expression. These data will guide further studies of the contribution of microRNAs to heart disease pathogenesis.
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PMID:Altered microRNA expression in human heart disease. 1784 2

This paper presents a model-based method for the analysis of regional myocardial strain, based on echocardiography and Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI). A multi-formalism, tissue-level electromechanical model of the left ventricle is proposed. The parameters of the model are identified in order to reproduce regional strain signal morphologies obtained from a healthy subject and a patient presenting a dilated cardiomyopathy. The parameters identified for the DCM patient allow the localization of the failing myocardial segments and may be useful for a better design of cardiac resynchronization therapy on heart failure patients.
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PMID:A tissue-level model of the left ventricle for the analysis of regional myocardial function. 1800 71

Echocardiography is a valuable tool for the evaluation of systolic and diastolic cardiac function. A high correlation between measurements of diastolic mitral inflow parameters analyzed with Doppler echocardiography and invasive methods makes the former valuable. The aim of this study was to ascertain if significant differences occur in diastolic myocardial parameters between dogs with no heart disease and dogs with subclinical or clinical dilated cardiomyopathy. Furthermore the aim of the study was to determine whether heart failure in dilated cardiomypathy is a result of systolic dysfunction alone or both systolic and diastolic dysfunction. Eleven parameters were analyzed: E wave, E-AT, E-DT, E time, A wave, A-AT, A-DT, A time, E+A time, E/A ratio, and IVRT. The study confirmed the value of noninvasive echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy. Significant differences were found in E wave, E-AT, E time, E/A ratio and IVRT between healthy dogs and dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy. All are characterized by a significant decrease compared to healthy dogs after taking into account age and body weight except for the E/A ratio, which significantly increased in value. There were no significant changes in any of the Doppler parameters for diastolic evaluation in subclinical cases of DCM. Advanced heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy entails systolic and diastolic dysfunction.
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PMID:Echocardiographic evaluation of diastolic parameters in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy. 1819 36

Heart diseases resulting in heart failure are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the Western world and can result from either systemic disease (e.g., hypertensive heart disease, ischemic heart disease) or specific heart muscle disease (e.g., dilated cardiomyopathy/DCM). Subproteome analysis of such disease subsets affords a reduction in sample complexity, potentially revealing biomarkers of cardiac failure that would otherwise remain undiscovered in proteome wide studies. Label-free nanoscale LC-MS has been applied in this study to validate a Triton X-114-based phase enrichment method for cardiac membrane proteins. Annotation of the subcellular location combined with GRAVY score analysis indicates a clear separation between soluble and membrane-bound proteins with an enrichment of over 62% for this protein subset. LC-MS allowed confident identification and annotation of hydrophobic proteins in this control sample pilot study and demonstrates the power of the proposed technique to extract integral membrane-bound proteins. This approach should be applicable to a wider scale study of disease-associated changes in the cardiac membrane subproteome.
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PMID:Nonionic detergent phase extraction for the proteomic analysis of heart membrane proteins using label-free LC-MS. 1871 67

Myocardial dilatation and dysfunction in the absence of significant coronary heart disease has been termed "idiopathic" dilated cardiomyopathy (iDCM), which--according to the 1995 task force report on the classification of cardiomyopathies-besides genetic, toxic or infectious causes also includes immune-mediated heart muscle damage in the spectrum of putative DCM etiologies. Incremental research on this topic particularly in the past few years has significantly contributed evidence to the hypothesis that autoimmune reactions against certain myocyte antigens may play a pivotal role in the initiation and/or progression of DCM. Recent transfer experiments in animals (mostly rodents) performed by various groups throughout the world and some preliminary clinical data even indicate that a few of these autoantibodies are indeed "pathogenic", inferring that they can actually cause cardiac dysfunction and heart failure by their own. Dependent on the individual genetic predisposition such harmful autoimmune reactions are supposed to emerge as a consequence of heart muscle damage induced by viral triggers, ischemia or exposure to cardiotoxins leading to myocyte apoptosis (and/or necrosis) and subsequent liberation of a "critical amount" of self-antigens previously hidden to the immune system. The following article will summarize the so far available evidence for an implication of a confined number of harmful autoantibodies directed against specific cardiac antigens in the pathogenesis of DCM.
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PMID:Pathological autoantibodies in cardiomyopathy. 1878 71

DCM is the most common cardiomyopathy in childhood. Effectiveness of anticongestive therapy is limited in most cases and about one-third of children diagnosed with DCM die or receive heart transplantation within the first year after diagnosis. Cardiac stem cell transplantation has become a promising therapy to treat heart failure in adult patients. Based on these promising results, the cardiac stem cell therapy might also represent a new therapeutic option particularly in young children. The present case documents for the first time intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in a critically ill two-yr-old child with severe heart failure caused by DCM. Because of progressive worsening of the clinical condition despite maximal anticongestive treatment, the decision to perform autologous stem cell therapy was made. Cardiac stem cell therapy proved to be technically feasible, was associated with improvement in cardiac function, and might represent an option before heart transplantation in children with severe heart failure.
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PMID:Intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in a critically ill two-yr-old child with dilated cardiomyopathy. 1906 28

Cardiomyopathy is a serious disorder of the heart muscle and, although rare, it is potentially devastating in children. Funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute since 1994, the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry (PCMR) was designed to describe the epidemiology and clinical course of selected CMs in patients 18 years old or younger and to promote the development of etiology-specific prevention and treatment strategies. Currently, data from more than 3,000 children with cardiomyopathy have been entered in the PCMR database with annual follow-up continuing until death, heart transplant, or loss-to-follow up. Using PCMR data, the incidence of cardiomyopathy in two large regions of the United States is estimated to be 1.13 cases per 100,000 children. Only 1/3 of children had a known etiology at the time of cardiomyopathy diagnosis. Diagnosis was associated with certain patient characteristics, family history, echocardiographic findings, laboratory testing, and biopsy. Greater incidence was found in boys and infants (<1 yr) for both dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (DCM, HCM) and black race for only DCM. In DCM, prognosis is worse in older children (>1yr), heart failure (HF) at diagnosis or idiopathic etiology. For HCM, worse prognosis is associated with inborn errors of metabolism or combination of HCM and another cardiomyopathy functional type. The best outcomes were observed in children presenting at age >1 yr with idiopathic HCM. PCMR data have enabled analysis of patients with cardiomyopathy and muscular dystrophy, as well as Noonan Syndrome. Currently, collaborations with the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study group and a newly established Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Biologic Specimen Repository at Texas Children's Hospital will continue to yield important results. The PCMR is the largest and most complete multi-center prospective data resource regarding the etiology, clinical course and outcomes for children with cardiomyopathy.
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PMID:The Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry: 1995-2007. 1934 86


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