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histiocytoid cardiomyopathy
Epidemiology:
- rare
- usually affects children younger than 2 years of age, with a clear predominance of females over males
Pathology:
- presence of characteristic pale granular foamy histiocyte- like cells within the myocardium
Genetics:
- associated with defects in MT-CYB
Clinical manifestations:
- infants present with dysrhythmia or cardiac arrest,
- clinical course is usually fulminant, sometimes simulating sudden infant death syndrome
General
cardiomyopathy
Database Correlations
OMIM 500000
References
(OMIM :accession 500000