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Unforeseen cardiac involvement in McArdle's disease.

PMID 23337261 | DOI 10.1016/j.hlc.2012.12.004 · Heart, lung & circulation · 2013

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McArdle's disease (glycogen storage disease type V) is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic myopathy due to myophosphorylase deficiency. It classically manifests by exercise intolerance, leg cramps, muscle pain and occasionally exercise induced myoglobinuria. The onset of exercise intolerance is typically in the second or third decades of life. It has a specific predilection to skeletal muscle involvement, yet cardiac muscle involvement is very rare. This report describes an unusual case of a 33 year-old man with known McArdle's disease who presented with an incidental finding of severe obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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TypeEntitySource evidenceConfidenceExtractor
phenotypeglycogen storage disease“McArdle's disease (glycogen storage disease type V) is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic myopathy due to myophosphorylase deficiency.”0.98phenotype_alias_lexicon_v2
phenotypecardiomyopathy“This report describes an unusual case of a 33 year-old man with known McArdle's disease who presented with an incidental finding of severe obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.”0.98phenotype_alias_lexicon_v2
phenotypecongenital myopathy“McArdle's disease (glycogen storage disease type V) is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic myopathy due to myophosphorylase deficiency.”0.93phenotype_alias_lexicon_v2