Is steroid treatment duration associated with myocardial fibrosis burden and LVEF in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients?
In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, myocardial fibrosis correlates with LVEF decline, and longer steroid treatment is associated with less age-related fibrosis progression.
Progressive myocardial fibrosis, as detected by LGE, was strongly correlated with the LVEF decline in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Longer steroid treatment duration was associated with a lower age-related increase in myocardial fibrosis burden.
Tandon et al. (Fri,) studied this question.