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Case Reports
. 2020 Oct 7;6(5):a005611.
doi: 10.1101/mcs.a005611. Print 2020 Oct.

Postmortem diagnosis of PPA2-associated sudden cardiac death from dried blood spot in a neonate presenting with vocal cord paralysis

Erica Sanford  1   2 , Marilyn C Jones  3 , Matthew Brigger  4 , Monia Hammer  1 , Lucia Giudugli  1 , Stephen F Kingsmore  1 , David Dimmock  1 , Matthew N Bainbridge  1
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Postmortem diagnosis of PPA2-associated sudden cardiac death from dried blood spot in a neonate presenting with vocal cord paralysis

Erica Sanford et al. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. .

Abstract

Biallelic variants in inorganic pyrophosphatase 2 (PPA2) are known to cause infantile sudden cardiac failure (OMIM #617222), but relatively little is known about phenotypic variability of these patients prior to their death. We report a 5-wk-old male with bilateral vocal cord paralysis and hypertension who had a sudden unexpected cardiac death. Subsequently, molecular autopsy via whole-genome sequencing from newborn dried blood spot identified compound heterozygous mutations in PPA2, with a paternally inherited, pathogenic missense variant (c.514G > A; p.Glu172Lys) and a novel, maternally inherited missense variant of uncertain significance (c.442A > T; p.Thr148Ser). This report expands the presenting phenotype of patients with PPA2 variants. It also highlights the utility of dried blood spots for postmortem molecular diagnosis.

Keywords: aspiration; bilateral vocal cord paresis; cardiorespiratory arrest; gastroesophageal reflux; laryngomalacia; neonatal hypoglycemia; respiratory failure.

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