Naxos disease (NXD) is characterized by cardiomyopathy, palmoplantar keratoderma, and woolly hair. Cardiac manifestation in patients with Naxos disease is arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy that appears by adolescence.
Category
Congenital malformation
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
11 Diseases of the circulatory system
Diseases of the myocardium or cardiac chambers
BC43 Cardiomyopathy
H00669 Naxos disease
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Cellular process
nt06539 Cytoskeleton in muscle cells
H00669 Naxos disease
Naxos disease and Carvajal syndrome: cardiocutaneous disorders that highlight the pathogenesis and broaden the spectrum of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
McKoy G, Protonotarios N, Crosby A, Tsatsopoulou A, Anastasakis A, Coonar A, Norman M, Baboonian C, Jeffery S, McKenna WJ
Title
Identification of a deletion in plakoglobin in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with palmoplantar keratoderma and woolly hair (Naxos disease).