Article
Dystrophies and heart disease.
Current opinion in cardiology - 1 May 1997
Cox G F, Kunkel L M
Abstract excerpt
The muscular dystrophies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of skeletal muscle-wasting diseases that differ widely in their frequency and pattern of cardiac involvement. Myocardial disease manifesting predominantly as cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure is characteristic of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy, whereas conduction system...
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