Decreased Myocardial Taurine Levels and Hypertaurinuria in a Kindred with Mitral-Valve Prolapse and Congestive Cardiomyopathy
- 15 January 1981
- journal article
- retracted article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 304 (3), 129-135
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198101153040301
Abstract
In a 46-member kindred with consanguineous ancestry, eight progeny in two generations had congestive cardiomyopathy and markedly elevated urinary taurine levels (range, 411 to 536 mg per gram of creatinine [normal ±S.D., 89±32]). Ten other family members had late or holosystolic mitral-valve prolapse, and elevated urinary taurine values (range, 215 to 265 mg). In two with mitral-valve prolapse, congestive cardiomyopathy eventually developed while the amounts of urinary taurine doubled. One member with mitral-valve prolapse died suddenly; histologic examination revealed myocardial fibrosis in the papillary muscles and myocardial taurine values of 16.9±3.0 μmol per gram of protein (normal ±S.E., 33.2±3.6). Four other family members with congestive cardiomyopathy had myocardial fibrosis at autopsy or biopsy and mean myocardial taurine levels of 9.2±2.2 μmol. We conclude that hypertaurinuria and depressed levels of taurine in the myocardium may be associated with one type of mitral-valve-prolapse syndrome and a rapidly progressive form of congestive cardiomyopathy. (N Engl J Med. 1981; 304:129–35.)This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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