Right heart catheterization in patients with muscular dystrophy revealed latent congestive heart failure in some individuals, providing insight into their cardiac and electrocardiographic abnormalities.
Highlights possible latent HF in muscular dystrophy; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
In an attempt to explain the electrocardiographic and other cardiac abnormalities in patients with muscular dystrophy, hemodynamic studies by right heart catheterization were done on 12 patients with muscular dystrophy. The study indicated the presence of latent congestive failure in some patients. An attempt to explain the abnormal QRS complexes and leads from the right side of the precordium in some of those patients is also made.
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