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ArticleESC heart failure2020

Late diagnosis of Barth syndrome in a 39-year-old patient with non-compaction cardiomyopathy and neutropenia.

Andreas Seitz, Annely Hinck, Raffi Bekeredjian, Udo Sechtem

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Article in ESC heart failure, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 52% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andreas SeitzDepartment of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
Annely HinckDepartment of Medicine-Cardiology, Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Raffi BekeredjianDepartment of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
Udo SechtemDepartment of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
Robert Bosch Hospital · DEKlinikum Ludwigsburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Barth syndrome is a rare X-linked recessive disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical features including cardiac and skeletal myopathy, neutropenia, exercise intolerance, and growth delay. Most affected patients are diagnosed during childhood, and mortality is highest in the first years of life. As a consequence, Barth syndrome is often considered a paediatric disease. Here, we report a case where the diagnosis was established in a 39-year-old patient with left ventricular non-compaction and neutropenia. The clinical course of the patient presented here was relatively benign. This suggests that the prevalence of Barth syndrome in adults may be underestimated. Barth syndrome should be considered in the differential diagnosis of male patients with cardiomyopathy and neutropenia.

Indexed as

Barth SyndromeCardiomyopathiesNeutropeniaAdultChildDelayed DiagnosisHeart VentriclesHumansMaleBarth syndromeCardiomyopathyLeft ventricular non-compactionNeutropeniaTafazzinTAZ

Identifiers

PMID31967729
PMCPMC7160505
OpenAlexW3001912002

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