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Background and purposeDuchenne muscular dystrophy carriers represent a rare condition that needs to be recognized because of the possible implications for prenatal diagnosis. Muscle biopsy is currently the diagnostic instrument of choice in sporadic patients. We wanted to verify whether muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could identify a pattern of involvement suggestive of this condition and...
Cardiac involvement is always detectable in the advanced stage of DMD but only a minority of patients suffer severe cardiac manifestations. In order to verify the existence of parameters that could help to predict the occurrence of cardiac findings, we investigated the cardiorespiratory involvement in 83 patients affected by DMD with a mean age of 17.2 years (range 7-27). In 65 cases the diagnosis...
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