ReviewActa myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology2016
Management of cardiac involvement in muscular dystrophies: paediatric versus adult forms.
Review in Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Is Cardiac Transplantation Still a Contraindication in Patients with Muscular Dystrophy-Related End-Stage Dilated Cardiomyopathy? A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Sarcoglycanopathies: From clinical diagnosis to new promising therapies.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2025Review
- Early Cardiac Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Case Report and Literature Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a young patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2022Article
- Case Reports: Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy Presenting as a Heart Rhythm Disorders in Children.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- TJournal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2020Article
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- Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy in adolescents: current perspectives.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2018Review
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Abstract
Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic disorders characterized by muscle degeneration and consequent substitution by fat and fibrous tissue. Cardiac involvement is an almost constant feature in a great part of these diseases, as both primary myocardial involvement and secondary involvement due to respiratory insufficiency, pulmonary hypertension or reduced mobility. Primary myocardial involvement usually begins more precociously compared to the secondary involvement. In fact the first signs of cardiomyopathy can be observed in the first decade of life in muscular dystrophies with childhood onset and later in adult form of muscular dystrophies as myotonic dystrophy type 1. At least an annual cardiac follow-up is recommended in these patients including clinical and instrumental examination (ECG, 24h Holter monitoring, ECHO), to detect cardiac involvement. A more frequent monitoring may be required according to the type of cardiomyopathy and the patient's needs. In this short review practical guide-lines are shown for physicians routinely involved in the management of these patients.
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