Are Female Patients More Overlooked in the Diagnosis of Fabry Disease?

To the Editor, We have read the article by Barman et al. (1) titled, “The Prevalence of Fabry disease Among Turkish Patients with non-obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Insights from a Screening Study” with interest. In their descriptive study, the researchers found that the frequency of Fabry...

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Veröffentlicht in:Balkan medical journal 2020-03, Vol.37 (2), p.114-114
Hauptverfasser: Gürdoğan, Muhammet, Akkuş, Ömer Ferudun
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:To the Editor, We have read the article by Barman et al. (1) titled, “The Prevalence of Fabry disease Among Turkish Patients with non-obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Insights from a Screening Study” with interest. In their descriptive study, the researchers found that the frequency of Fabry disease was 2.5% by screening 80 patients (53 males) diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The au-thors emphasized that Fabry disease should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of patients with unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy (1).
ISSN:2146-3123
2146-3131
DOI:10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2019.2019.11.148