Fatal infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy secondary to deficiency of heart specific phosphorylase b kinase.

Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histopathol

1st Institute of Pathology, School of Medicine I, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Published: December 1993

We describe here a male infant with a rare form of glycogenosis caused by deficiency of heart specific phosphorylase b kinase. The disease phenotype was characterized by severe glycogenosis restricted to the heart muscle with secondary rapidly progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causing death at the age of 47 days.

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