LAMP-2 positive vacuolar myopathy with dilated cardiomyopathy

S Sugimoto, K Shiomi, A Yamamoto, I Nishino… - Internal …, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
S Sugimoto, K Shiomi, A Yamamoto, I Nishino, I Nonaka, T Ohi
Internal Medicine, 2007jstage.jst.go.jp
We report a 46-year-old male patient with late-onset vacuolar myopathy and dilated
cardiomyopathy. Acid maltase activity of the muscle was normal, but the biopsied muscle
specimen stained for lysosome-associated membrane protein-2 (LAMP-2), which has
recently been reported to be deficient in muscles of patients with Danon disease. The
clinical features of the patient are distinct from X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy,
infantile autophagic vacuolar myopathy and autophagic vacuolar myopathy with late-onset …
Abstract
We report a 46-year-old male patient with late-onset vacuolar myopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. Acid maltase activity of the muscle was normal, but the biopsied muscle specimen stained for lysosome-associated membrane protein-2 (LAMP-2), which has recently been reported to be deficient in muscles of patients with Danon disease. The clinical features of the patient are distinct from X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy, infantile autophagic vacuolar myopathy and autophagic vacuolar myopathy with late-onset and multiorgan involvement (Kaneda).
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