Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (Nov 2024)

Determination of Genotype and Phenotypes in Pediatric Patients With Biventricular Noncompaction

  • Keiichi Hirono,
  • Yukiko Hata,
  • Teruhiko Imamura,
  • Kaori Tsuboi,
  • Shinya Takarada,
  • Mako Okabe,
  • Hideyuki Nakaoka,
  • Keijiro Ibuki,
  • Sayaka Ozawa,
  • Shojiro Ichimata,
  • Naoki Nishida,
  • Hidenori Iwasaki,
  • Susumu Urata,
  • Seigo Okada,
  • Tomoya Hiratsuji,
  • Heima Sakaguchi,
  • Kiyohiro Takigiku,
  • Makoto Nakazawa,
  • Eiki Nishihara,
  • Masako Harada,
  • Osamu Matsuo,
  • Kenji Yasuda,
  • Yoko Yoshida,
  • Hidemasa Namiki,
  • Kazushi Yasuda,
  • Toshinobu Ifuku,
  • Kotaro Urayama,
  • Hideharu Oka,
  • Kayo Ogino,
  • Akio Kato,
  • Nobuhiko Kan,
  • Shunji Seki,
  • Mitsuru Seki,
  • Yutaka Odanaka,
  • Satoru Iwashima,
  • Shuichiro Yoshida,
  • Toyohisa Miyata,
  • Tomoyuki Miyamoto,
  • Ken Watanabe,
  • Naoki Kuwabara,
  • Ryo Inuzuka,
  • Yoshihiro Takahashi,
  • Hisanori Sakazaki,
  • Jun Muneuchi,
  • Shigetoyo Kogaki,
  • Fujito Numano,
  • Sachiko Kido,
  • Masaki Nii,
  • Shinsuke Hoshino,
  • Hidekazu Ishida,
  • Jun Maeda,
  • Yasunobu Hayabuchi,
  • Yoshikazu Otsubo,
  • Kazuyuki Ikeda,
  • Shinya Tsukano,
  • Makoto Watanabe,
  • Nobuo Momoi,
  • Takanari Fujii,
  • Tao Fujioka,
  • Mitsuhiro Fujino,
  • Hiroki Uchiyama,
  • Shigehito Baba,
  • Hitoshi Horigome,
  • Takashi Honda,
  • Kazutaka Suzuki,
  • Fukiko Ichida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.035614
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 21

Abstract

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Background Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a hereditary type of cardiomyopathy characterized by prominent trabeculations. Detailed characteristics of biventricular noncompaction (BiVNC) remain unknown. This study aimed to elucidate the clinical characteristics and genetic landscape of BiVNC. Methods and Results We recruited children with left ventricular noncompaction from Japanese multi‐institutional centers from 2013 to 2021. Left ventricular noncompaction was classified as BiVNC, congenital heart disease, arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy, or normal function. In these patients, cardiomyopathy‐associated genes were screened. A total of 234 patients (127 male; mean age, 4 months [range, 0–6.6 years]) were enrolled in this study, of whom 25 had BiVNC; 55, normal function; 84, dilated cardiomyopathy; 38, congenital heart disease; and 32, arrhythmia. BiVNC was diagnosed during the perinatal period in 10 patients, in whom the prevalence was higher than that in other patients. A total of 14 patients in the group with BiVNC had congenital heart disease, but not necessarily right heart lesions. Left ventricular dyskinesis was frequently observed in the lateral wall (24%) and apex (28%). Eleven pathogenic variants were found in 11 patients with BiVNC (44.0%). The group with BiVNC had a higher ratio of mitochondrial and developmental gene variants than the other groups. Among all groups, the group with BiVNC had the worst survival rate (P=0.0009). Conclusions Pediatric patients with BiVNC had a high rate of ventricular dyskinesis and poor outcome. A comprehensive and careful screening for disease‐causing genes and phenotype may help identify specific patients with left ventricular noncompaction and mortality‐related cardiac phenotypes.

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