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Cardiologic evaluation in Fabry disease

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2018

Abstract

Fabry disease is an inherited metabolic storage disease. The majority of patients present with heart involvement that is typicallymanifested as myocardial hypertrophy.

Successful treatment requires a correct diagnosis and thorough evaluation which, inaddition to patient history and physical examination, also involves ECG, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging.Enzyme replacement therapy is a specific type of treatment.