Therapy insight: cardiovascular complications associated with muscular dystrophies.

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The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in cardiomyocyte and cardiac conduction system function, and by the presence of severe skeletal muscle disease, which also contributes to cardiac dysfunction. Unlike the skeletal muscle degenerative process, for which treatment...

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