Management and therapy for cardiomyopathy in Friedreich’s ataxia

Lynch, David R.; Regner, Sean; Schadt, Kimberly; Friedman, Lisa S.; Lin, Kimberly Y.; Sutton, Martin G. St. John

doi:10.1586/erc.12.57

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“…69 Additional systemic features include progressive cerebellar dysfunction, ataxia, scoliosis, diabetes mellitus, impaired speech, and loss of vision and hearing. The spectrum of phenotypic features of FA fits best with a mitochondrial disorder, although frataxin is encoded by nuclear DNA.…”

Section: Friedreich Ataxiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Feingold¹,

Mahle²,

Auerbach³

et al. 2017

Circulation

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For many neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), cardiac disease represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The management of cardiac disease in NMDs is made challenging by the broad clinical heterogeneity that exists among many NMDs and by limited knowledge about disease-specific cardiovascular pathogenesis and course-modifying interventions. The overlay of compromise in peripheral muscle function and other organ systems, such as the lungs, also makes the simple application of endorsed adult or pediatric heart failure guidelines to the NMD population problematic. In this statement, we provide background on several NMDs in which there is cardiac involvement, highlighting unique features of NMD-associated myocardial disease that require clinicians to tailor their approach to prevention and treatment of heart failure. Undoubtedly, further investigations are required to best inform future guidelines on NMD-specific cardiovascular health risks, treatments, and outcomes. N euromuscular diseases (NMDs) encompass a broad spectrum of diagnoses with overlapping but distinct phenotypes. Common to many NMDs is cardiac involvement. Although the past 3 decades have seen marked advances in our understanding of many NMDs, significant gaps in knowledge remain on how best to approach cardiac care in these patients. For example, survival in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been extended through the use of glucocorticoid use and respiratory support, yet cardiac complications remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality.1-3 To achieve further gains in care, we will need to improve our understanding of the pathophysiologies driving cardiac involvement in NMDs and advance treatments aimed at preventing the progression of heart failure (HF) and sudden death in NMDs. The recently published findings of an expert working group on cardiac involvement in DMD, which outlined key gaps in knowledge and made specific recommendations aimed at improving diagnosis and management, are a step toward this goal. 4 In this statement, we include a comprehensive overview of the major categories of NMDs with cardiac involvement. For each, a brief background of the gene defect(s), common clinical manifestations (particularly cardiac findings), and current therapies is summarized. Gaps in knowledge are highlighted, and where possible, clinical treatment suggestions are made by the expert writing group appointed by the American Heart Association to review the available literature. Selection of the writing group was performed in accordance with the American Heart Association's conflict-of-interest management policy. Participants volunteered to write sections relevant to their expertise and experience. CLINICAL STATEMENTS AND GUIDELINESconducted a general search of the literature, restricted to human subjects research published between 1980 and 2016. Drafts of each section were written and sent to the chair of the writing group for incorporation into a single document, which was then edited. The edited document was discussed electron...

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Section: Friedreich Ataxiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Feingold¹,

Mahle²,

Auerbach³

et al. 2017

Circulation

220

195

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“…Aggressive clinical management (28) should include close attention to cardiac status, as cardiac abnormalities are the most common cause of death. Annual evaluations should include an EKG and echocardiogram, with referral to cardiology for patients showing abnormalities (87). …”

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confidence: 99%

Repeat expansion diseases

Paulson

2018

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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More than 40 diseases, most of which primarily affect the nervous system, are caused by expansions of simple sequence repeats dispersed throughout the human genome. Expanded trinucleotide repeat diseases were discovered first and remain the most frequent. More recently tetra-, penta-, hexa-, and even dodeca-nucleotide repeat expansions have been identified as the cause of human disease, including some of the most common genetic disorders seen by neurologists. Repeat expansion diseases include both causes of myotonic dystrophy (DM1 and DM2), the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia (C9ORF72), Huntington disease, and eight other polyglutamine disorders, including the most common forms of dominantly inherited ataxia, the most common recessive ataxia (Friedreich ataxia), and the most common heritable mental retardation (fragile X syndrome). Here I review distinctive features of this group of diseases that stem from the unusual, dynamic nature of the underlying mutations. These features include marked clinical heterogeneity and the phenomenon of clinical anticipation. I then discuss the diverse molecular mechanisms driving disease pathogenesis, which vary depending on the repeat sequence, size, and location within the disease gene, and whether the repeat is translated into protein. I conclude with a brief clinical and genetic description of individual repeat expansion diseases that are most relevant to neurologists.

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“…[132][133][134] The most frequent cause of death is cardiac dysfunction, reflecting congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias and cardioembolic stroke. 135 More recent report showed no significant improvement of left ventricular mass and function in a paediatric population treated with idebenone. 136 New therapeutic approaches, such as histone deacetylase inhibitors, and enzyme replacement with cell penetrant peptide fusion proteins, hold promise for Freidreich's ataxia and other similar mitochondrial disorders.…”

Section: Infancymentioning

confidence: 94%

Skeletal muscle involvement in cardiomyopathies

Limongelli

D’Alessandro

Maddaloni

et al. 2013

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

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The link between heart and skeletal muscle disorders is based on similar molecular, anatomical and clinical features, which are shared by the 'primary' cardiomyopathies and 'primary' neuromuscular disorders. There are, however, some peculiarities that are typical of cardiac and skeletal muscle disorders. Skeletal muscle weakness presenting at any age may indicate a primary neuromuscular disorder (associated with creatine kinase elevation as in dystrophinopathies), a mitochondrial disease (particularly if encephalopathy, ocular myopathy, retinitis, neurosensorineural deafness, lactic acidosis are present), a storage disorder (progressive exercise intolerance, cognitive impairment and retinitis pigmentosa, as in Danon disease), or metabolic disorders (hypoglycaemia, metabolic acidosis, hyperammonaemia or other specific biochemical abnormalities). In such patients, skeletal muscle weakness usually precedes the cardiomyopathy and dominates the clinical picture. Nevertheless, skeletal involvement may be subtle, and the first clinical manifestation of a neuromuscular disorder may be the occurrence of heart failure, conduction disorders or ventricular arrhythmias due to cardiomyopathy. ECG and echocardiogram, and eventually, a more detailed cardiovascular evaluation may be required to identify early cardiac involvement. Paediatric and adult cardiologists should be proactive in screening for neuromuscular and related disorders to enable diagnosis in probands and evaluation of families with a focus on the identification of those at risk of cardiac arrhythmia and emboli who may require specific prophylactic treatments, for example, pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and anticoagulation.

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Management and therapy for cardiomyopathy in Friedreich’s ataxia

Cited by 27 publications

References 92 publications

Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Repeat expansion diseases

Skeletal muscle involvement in cardiomyopathies

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