Improvement in Cardiac Function With Enzyme Replacement Therapy in a Patient With Infantile-Onset Pompe Disease Article

Full Text via DOI: 10.31486/toj.18.0049 PMID: 30559630 Web of Science: 000453052700023

Cited authors

  • Niyazov, Dmitriy; Lara, Diego A.

Abstract

  • Background: Pompe disease is a lysosomal storage disorder that results from an inborn error of metabolism involving abnormal glycogen storage. Infantile-onset Pompe disease is the most severe phenotype, and enzyme replacement therapy with alglucosidase alfa (Lumizyme) improves medical and functional outcomes in patients with infantile-onset Pompe disease.; Case Report: We report the case of a patient with infantile-onset Pompe disease who presented with severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, systolic and diastolic cardiac dysfunction, and hypotonia. She experienced significant improvement in cardiac systolic function while receiving enzyme replacement therapy.; Conclusion: Typically, patients with infantile-onset Pompe disease and severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are not as responsive to enzyme replacement therapy as patients with mild or no hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We demonstrated the efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy in a patient with severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Publication date

  • 2018

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1524-5012

Start page

  • 413

End page

  • 416

Volume

  • 18

Issue

  • 4