Usefulness of genetic testing in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An analysis using real-world data.

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10641/1776
ISSN: 1937-5387
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-017-9730-8

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2017

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Aims: This study sought to determine the usefulness of genetic testing to predict evolution in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and to assess the role of genetic testing in clinical practice. Methods and Results: Genetic results of 100 HCM patients tested for mutations in ≥10 HCM-causing genes were evaluated. Patients were classified as with poor (Group A) or favourable(Group B) clinical course. Forty-five pathogenic mutations (PM) were identified in 28 patients (56%) from Group A and in 23 (46%) from Group B (p=0.317). Only 40 patients (40%) exhibited PM that had been previously reported and only 15 (15%) had PM reported in ≥10 individuals. PM associated with poor prognosis were identified in just 5 patients from Group A (10%). Conclusion: Genetic findings are not useful to predict prognosis in most HCM patients. By contrast, real-world data reinforce the usefulness of genetic testing to provide genetic counselling and to enable cascade genetic screening.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Mutations, Genetics, Prognosis, Family screening

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