Population
Patients with dystrophin gene mutations and a specific case of a 14-year-old boy with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Design
Review
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Supports consideration of dystrophin defects in sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy without severe skeletal myopathy; leaves open the value of routine genetic screening.
Dystrophin gene defects should be considered in sporadic cases of dilated cardiomyopathy, even in the absence of severe skeletal myopathy.
Oldfors et al. (1994) studied this question.
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