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Query: UMLS:C0026850 (
muscular dystrophy
)
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The authors report a case of dilated cardiomyopathy caused by a
muscular dystrophy
, namely Becker's disease. The peculiarity of this case is the fact that the patient has lived enough time to have clinical manifestations of myocardiopathy because, in general, in this myopathy, the affected males have a short life and the early myocardial involvement is rare. A particular attention is paid to the need of consulting the cardiac patients not
forgetting
an eventual causal systemic disease and to the crucial importance of the genetic counselling in that kind of diseases.
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PMID:[Dilated cardiomyopathy in a patient with Becker's muscular dystrophy. A clinical case report]. 833 94
