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Case Reports
. 1988 Nov;235(8):496-8.
doi: 10.1007/BF00314256.

Cardiac transplantation in Becker muscular dystrophy

F Casazza  1 , G Brambilla, A Salvato, L Morandi, E Gronda, E Bonacina
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Case Reports

Cardiac transplantation in Becker muscular dystrophy

F Casazza et al. J Neurol. 1988 Nov.

Abstract

A 23-year-old man with X-linked Becker type muscular dystrophy underwent cardiac transplantation because of dilated cardiomyopathy which was complicated by terminal heart failure. Impairment of muscle function was mild and slowly progressive, whereas the cardiac disease was severe and rapidly progressive. All four chambers of the removed heart were grossly dilated; microscopically, the myocardial fibres were hypertrophic and pale; the nuclei exhibited pleomorphism with variability in nuclear size, shape, and depth of staining.

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