Key result
A 7.5-year-old girl with rigid spine syndrome of Dubowitz presented with heart failure due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and died suddenly one month later, representing a novel association.
Population
A 7 1/2-year-old girl with rigid spine syndrome of Dubowitz and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presenting in…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
one month
Authors
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Cardiac evaluation may be considered in rigid spine syndrome; this case leaves the association hypothesis-generating pending larger studies.
Case Report (n=1)
This is the first reported case associating rigid spine syndrome with fatal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Colver et al. (1981) conducted a case report in Rigid spine syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=1). Rigid spine syndrome of Dubowitz was evaluated on Death. A 7.5-year-old girl with rigid spine syndrome of Dubowitz presented with heart failure due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and died suddenly one month later, representing a novel association.
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