Key result
A 25-year-old man with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and prolonged QT interval presented with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights a rare case of co-inherited pathogenic variants in MYBPC3 and KCNH2 causing familial HCM and long QT 2 syndrome.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiomyopathy, with an autosomal dominant inheritance, incomplete penetrance, and variable expression. Ventricular tachyarrhythmias are the main cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults with HCM.1 QT prolongation in HCM has been attributed mostly to dispersion of repolarization from myocardial hypertrophy.2 We report a rare case of a 25-year-old man with familial HCM and prolonged QT interval, who presented with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia / ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
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Alvarez et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and long QT 2 syndrome (n=1). Dual myosin binding protein C3 and potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2 co-inherited pathogenic variants was evaluated. A 25-year-old man with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and prolonged QT interval presented with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
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