Population
340 Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients aged 2-28 years from the multi-institutional Cooperative…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Cardiomyopathy may be undertreated in Duchenne muscular dystrophy; this Level 4 cross-sectional observation leaves open whether routine echocardiographic screening improves outcomes.
Echocardiograms are underutilized and cardiomyopathy is undertreated in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Spurney et al. (2014) studied this question.
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