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Determination of Glucan Chain Length Distribution of Glycogen Using the Fluorophore-Assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis (FACE) Method
Published on: March 31, 2022
Cardiac delayed enhancement distribution in extralysosomial glycogen storage disease
Federica Fiocchi1, Caterina Ricci, Guido Ligabue
1Dipartimento Integrato dei Servizi Diagnostici e per Immagine, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia-Azienda Policlinico, Modena, Italia. federica.fiocchi@gmail.com
Abstract:
We describe magnetic resonance (MR) aspect of cardiac glycogenesis in a 49-years old man, presented a progressively declining cardiac function and negative coronary angiography. Delayed enhancement MR confirmed non-ischemic pattern with unusual diffuse distribution of Gadolinium. Cardiac biopsy revealed a Glycogen Storage Disease, extralysosomial type. Cardiac MR with analysis of delayed enhancement distribution is an emerging tool that can discriminate between ischemic and non-ischemic diseases; however to identify the precise aetiology of a non-ischemic distribution, myocardial biopsy is still needed.
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