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SUBMITTER: Tandon A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5576500 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tandon Animesh A Taylor Michael D MD Cripe Linda H LH
Cardiology in the young 20140129 2
We present the case of a 29-year-old man with mutation-positive Duchenne muscular dystrophy and mutation-positive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. His cardiac phenotype has characteristics of both disorders; he manifests sub-epicardial left ventricular free wall late gadolinium enhancement that is consistent with Duchenne cardiomyopathy, as well as asymmetric ventricular septal hypertrophy, hyperdynamic left ventricular systolic function, and septal mid-myocardial late gadolinium enhancement, which ...[more]