Open AccessCardiac Disorders in Patients With Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
Author(s) -
C. Orssaud
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of neuro-ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.586
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1536-5166
pISSN - 1070-8022
DOI - 10.1097/wno.0000000000000623
Subject(s) - medicine , leber's hereditary optic neuropathy , sudden cardiac death , optic neuropathy , cardiology , ventricular fibrillation , retrospective cohort study , kearns–sayre syndrome , atrioventricular block , atrial fibrillation , repolarization , mitochondrial dna , ophthalmology , optic nerve , biochemistry , chemistry , electrophysiology , gene
Cardiac abnormalities have been described in patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Some are life-threatening because of the risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death. The purpose of our study was to better characterize the cardiac abnormalities in a large patient cohort with LHON.