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Review

Muscular Dystrophies: Key Elements for Everyday Diagnosis and Management

by
Alberto Palladino
1,*,
Gerardo Nigro
2 and
Luisa Politano
1
1
Cardiomiologia e Genetica Medica - Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, 80138 Napoli, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Cardiogenetics 2013, 3(1), e9; https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2013.e9
Submission received: 30 July 2013 / Revised: 11 December 2013 / Accepted: 13 December 2013 / Published: 20 December 2013

Abstract

Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders that share similar clinical features and dystrophic changes on muscle biopsy, associated with progressive weakness. Weakness may be noted at birth or develop in late adult life. In recent years, cardiac involvement has been observed in a growing number of genetic muscle diseases, and considerable progress has been made in understanding the relationships between disease skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle disease. This review will focus on the skeletal muscle diseases most commonly associated with cardiac complications that can be diagnosed by echocardiography, such as dystrophinopathies including Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) muscular dystrophies, cardiomyopathy of DMD/BMD carriers and X-L dilated cardiomyopathy.
Keywords: cardiomyopathy; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Becker muscular dystrophy; Duchenne and Becker carriers; genetics; echocardiography cardiomyopathy; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Becker muscular dystrophy; Duchenne and Becker carriers; genetics; echocardiography

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Palladino, A.; Nigro, G.; Politano, L. Muscular Dystrophies: Key Elements for Everyday Diagnosis and Management. Cardiogenetics 2013, 3, e9. https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2013.e9

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Palladino A, Nigro G, Politano L. Muscular Dystrophies: Key Elements for Everyday Diagnosis and Management. Cardiogenetics. 2013; 3(1):e9. https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2013.e9

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Palladino, Alberto, Gerardo Nigro, and Luisa Politano. 2013. "Muscular Dystrophies: Key Elements for Everyday Diagnosis and Management" Cardiogenetics 3, no. 1: e9. https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2013.e9

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Palladino, A., Nigro, G., & Politano, L. (2013). Muscular Dystrophies: Key Elements for Everyday Diagnosis and Management. Cardiogenetics, 3(1), e9. https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2013.e9

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