Case Report This is a case report of a 50-year-old male patient who came to the emergency department of our institution with a complaint of progressive dyspnea for a week. The patient reported a previous history of fibromyalgia and denied other comorbidities, such as myocardial infarction or stroke. He denied current smoking, but occasionally used alcohol. His routine medications included duloxetine, pregabalin and zolpidem. His mother and cousins had a history of heart failure due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, with […]

Abstract Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a clinical syndrome characterized by left ventricular dilatation and contractile dysfunction. It is the most common cause of heart failure in young adults. The advent of next-generation sequencing has contributed to the discovery of a large amount of genomic data related to DCM. Mutations involving genes that encode cytoskeletal proteins, the sarcomere, and ion channels account for approximately 40% of cases previously classified as idiopathic DCM. In this scenario, geneticists and cardiovascular genetics specialists have […]