Screening for Fabry Disease in Male Patients With Arrhythmia Requiring a Pacemaker or an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator

Circulation. 2021 Feb 23;143(8):872-874. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051400. Epub 2021 Feb 22.
No abstract available

Keywords: Fabry disease; arrhythmias, cardiac; diagnostic screening programs.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / complications
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / therapy*
  • Defibrillators, Implantable*
  • Dried Blood Spot Testing
  • Fabry Disease / complications
  • Fabry Disease / diagnosis*
  • Fabry Disease / genetics
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pacemaker, Artificial*
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Prospective Studies
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • alpha-Galactosidase / analysis
  • alpha-Galactosidase / genetics

Substances

  • GLA protein, human
  • alpha-Galactosidase