The Egyptian Heart Journal (Sep 2016)

Gaucher disease causing sudden cardiac death

  • Yehia Saleh,
  • Abdallah Almaghraby,
  • Basma Hammad,
  • Ahmed Mokhtar,
  • Mohamed Ayman Abdel-hay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehj.2015.08.002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 3
pp. 201 – 204

Abstract

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A 17-year-old male patient with Gaucher disease was presented to our institution complaining of rapid irregular palpitations. Echocardiography showed the presence of critical aortic stenosis due to Gaucher disease.

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