Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most frequent lethal genetic disease. Several clinical trials have established both the beneficial effect of steroids in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the well-known risk of side effects associated with their daily use. For many years it has been known that steroids associated with ambulation loss lead to obesity and also damage the bone structure resulting ...

Cardiac muscle involvement is not a rare complication in muscle disorders as is most commonlyseen in muscular dystrophies. Hypertrophic and/or dilated cardiomyopathy progresses in parallel with disease progression in most of patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, though cardiac failure mayprecede skeletal muscle symptoms, especially in Becker form. Cardiac muscle involvement is...

MANY observers have reported pathologic changes in the myoeardium of patients with muscular dystrophy similar to those in the skeletal muscles.'-8 Clinical evidence of involvement of the heart has also been noted, consisting of persistent tachycardia,9 10 arrhythmias,10 congestive heart failure, chest pain, cardiac enlargement, changes in heart sounds, murmurs, electrocardiographic alterations ...

The muscular dystrophies and congenital myopathies are inherited diseases of the skeletal muscle, which lead to a loss of muscle function and are often fatal. While many of the loci involved are already known, these conditions remain incurable, and genetic models are being developed in an effort to understand the pathological mechanisms involved. Recently several papers have shown that the zebr...

OBJECTIVE Adverse event reports (AERs) submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were reviewed to assess the muscular and renal adverse events induced by the administration of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) and to attempt to determine the rank-order of the association. METHODS After a revision of arbitrary drug names and the deletio...

Skeletal muscle damaged by injury or by degenerative diseases such as muscular dystrophy is able to regenerate new muscle fibers. Regeneration mainly depends upon satellite cells, myogenic progenitors localized between the basal lamina and the muscle fiber membrane. However, other cell types outside the basal lamina, such as pericytes, also have myogenic potency. Here, we discuss the main prope...

MANY observers have reported pathologic changes in the myoeardium of patients with muscular dystrophy similar to those in the skeletal muscles.'-8 Clinical evidence of involvement of the heart has also been noted, consisting of persistent tachycardia,9 10 arrhythmias,10 congestive heart failure, chest pain, cardiac enlargement, changes in heart sounds, murmurs, electrocardiographic alterations ...

Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) due to dystrophin deficiency leads to death by heart failure in nearly 30% of cases. An early detection of myocardial abnormalities in these patients would help in the optimization of their management. The GRMD is a canine model of DMD, that develops a severe cardiomyopathy. Purpose Post-processing of standard cine-MR images of young GRMD dogs, bef...