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Relation of CTG expansion and clinical variables to electrocardiogram conduction abnormalities and sudden death in patients with myotonic dystrophy.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Dec 2003
Sabovic M, Medica I, Logar N, Mandić E, Zidar J, Peterlin B
Abstract excerpt
We prospectively followed 63 patients with myotonic dystrophy (DM) after establishing diagnosis of DM for an average 8 years in an attempt to detect conduction disturbances (by electrocardiography and/or Holter monitoring) and sudden cardiac events (sudden death, cardiac syncope) and correlate them to potential predicting factors (CTG repeat expansion in the myotonin protein kinase gene and several clinical...
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