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Follow-up of three patients with a large in-frame deletion of exons 45-55 in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Jul 2008
Nakamura Akinori, Yoshida Kunihiro, Fukushima Kazuhiro, Ueda Hideho, Urasawa Nobuyuki, Koyama Jun, Yazaki Yoshikazu, Yazaki Masahide, Sakai Toshiaki, Haruta Seiichi, Takeda Shin'ichi, Ikeda Shu-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
We review the clinical status of skeletal involvement and cardiac function in three unrelated patients harboring an in-frame deletion of exons 45 to 55 in the DMD gene followed up for 2 to 7 years. Two younger patients diagnosed as having X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy (XLDCM) developed congestive heart failure without overt skeletal myopathy. Heart failure recurred after viral infection but responded well to...
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