Background: Mutations in desmoplakin (), the primary force transducer between cardiac desmosomes and intermediate filaments, cause an arrhythmogenic form of cardiomyopathy that has been variably associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Clinical correlates of cardiomyopathy have been limited to small case series.

Methods: Clinical and genetic data were collected on 107 patients with pathogenic mutations and 81 patients with pathogenic plakophilin 2 () mutations as a comparison cohort. A composite outcome of severe ventricular arrhythmia was assessed.

Results: and cohorts included similar proportions of probands (41% versus 42%) and patients with truncating mutations (98% versus 100%). Left ventricular (LV) predominant cardiomyopathy was exclusively present among patients with (55% versus 0% for , <0.001), whereas right ventricular cardiomyopathy was present in only 14% of patients with versus 40% for (<0.001). Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy diagnostic criteria had poor sensitivity for cardiomyopathy. LV late gadolinium enhancement was present in a primarily subepicardial distribution in 40% of patients with (23/57 with magnetic resonance images). LV late gadolinium enhancement occurred with normal LV systolic function in 35% (8/23) of patients with . Episodes of acute myocardial injury (chest pain with troponin elevation and normal coronary angiography) occurred in 15% of patients with and were strongly associated with LV late gadolinium enhancement (90%), even in cases of acute myocardial injury with normal ventricular function (4/5, 80% with late gadolinium enhancement). In 4 cases with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans, acute LV myocardial injury was associated with myocardial inflammation misdiagnosed initially as cardiac sarcoidosis or myocarditis. Left ventricle ejection fraction <55% was strongly associated with severe ventricular arrhythmias for cases (<0.001, sensitivity 85%, specificity 53%). Right ventricular ejection fraction <45% was associated with severe arrhythmias for cases (<0.001) but was poorly associated for cases (=0.8). Frequent premature ventricular contractions were common among patients with severe arrhythmias for both (80%) and (91%) groups (=non-significant).

Conclusions: cardiomyopathy is a distinct form of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy characterized by episodic myocardial injury, left ventricular fibrosis that precedes systolic dysfunction, and a high incidence of ventricular arrhythmias. A genotype-specific approach for diagnosis and risk stratification should be used.

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