Las mutaciones RBM20 inducen una miocardiopatía dilatada aritmogénica relacionada con el manejo perturbado del calcio

Maarten M G van den Hoogenhof1, Abdelaziz Beqqali1, Ahmad S Amin1

  • 1Department of Experimental Cardiology (M.M.G.v.d.H., A.B., A.S.A., I.v.d.M., S.A., M.A.F.K., C.A.S., J.A.J., C.A.R., A.o.V., A.B., Y.M.P., E.E.C.), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Circulation
|April 14, 2018
PubMed
Resumen

Las mutaciones en la proteína 20 del motivo de unión al ARN (RBM20) aumentan el riesgo de arritmia en la miocardiopatía dilatada al interrumpir el manejo del calcio. La pérdida de RBM20 conduce a liberaciones proarrítmicas de calcio, lo que sugiere que los bloqueadores de ICa,L pueden beneficiar a los pacientes.

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