Ferrero Paolo, Piazza Isabelle, Giamberti Alessandro, Chessa Massimo
ACHD UNIT, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Centre, IRCCS - Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy.
European Reference Network for Rare and Low Prevalence Complex Diseases of the Heart, ERN GUARD-Heart, Milan, Italy.
Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2022 May-Jun;15(3):273-275. doi: 10.4103/apc.apc_213_21. Epub 2022 Nov 16.
Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) seem to have a higher risk for specific malignancies. We hypothesize a pathogenetic link between particular congenital heart defects and cancer originating from specific cellular lineages. We report a series of patients, followed in two high-volume referral centers, with CHD involving neural crest-derived structures who developed cancer later in life. Fourteen patients (five female) developed neoplasia with a cellular origin embryologically linked to the neural crest between 2010 and 2020. If confirmed on larger datasets, this observation might support the hypothesis of common embryogenetic pathway suggesting tailored surveillance of a specific subset of patients.
先天性心脏病(CHD)患者似乎患特定恶性肿瘤的风险更高。我们推测特定先天性心脏缺陷与源自特定细胞谱系的癌症之间存在致病联系。我们报告了一系列患者,这些患者在两个大型转诊中心接受随访,他们患有涉及神经嵴衍生结构的先天性心脏病,后来在生命后期患上了癌症。在2010年至2020年期间,14名患者(5名女性)发生了肿瘤,其细胞起源在胚胎学上与神经嵴相关。如果在更大的数据集中得到证实,这一观察结果可能支持共同胚胎发生途径的假设,提示对特定患者亚组进行针对性监测。