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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Ana TopfORCiD, Professor Bernard Keavney, Professor Judith Goodship
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Background Three quarters of patients with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) have congenital heart disease (CHD), typically conotruncal heart defects. Although it is currently common practice to test all children with typical CHD for 22q11.2DS, many adult patients have not been tested in the past and therefore 22q11.2DS might be under-recognised in adults. Objectives To determine the prevalence of 22q11.2DS in adults with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and pulmonary atresia (PA)/ventricular septal defect (VSD) and to assess the level of recognition of the syndrome in adult patients. Methods Patients were identified from CONCOR, a nationwide registry for adult patients with CHD. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of TOF or PA/VSD and the availability of DNA. Patients with syndromes other than 22q11.2DS were excluded. Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification was used to detect 22q11.2 microdeletions. Results 479 patients with TOF and 79 patients with PA/VSD (56% male, median age 34.7 years) were included and analysed. Twenty patients were already known to have 22q11.2DS. A 22q11.2 microdeletion was detected in a further 24 patients. Thirty-one patients with TOF (6.5%) had 22q11.2DS, whereas 13 patients with PA/VSD had 22q11.2DS (16.5%). Of all 22q11.2 microdeletions, 54% (24/44) were unknown before this study. Conclusion This study shows that although the prevalence of 22q11.2DS in adults with TOF and PA/VSD is substantial, it is unrecognised in more than half of patients. As the syndrome has important clinical and reproductive implications, a diagnostic test should be considered in all adult patients with TOF and PA/VSD.
Author(s): van Engelen K, Topf A, Keavney BD, Goodship JA, van der Velde ET, Baars MJH, Snijder S, Moorman AF, Postma AV, Mulder BJM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Heart
Year: 2010
Volume: 96
Issue: 8
Pages: 621-624
Print publication date: 01/04/2010
ISSN (print): 1355-6037
ISSN (electronic): 1468-201X
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2009.182642
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.182642
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