Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Diameter and Cardiac Mortality in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Kazuhiko SegawaNorio SugawaraKazushi MaruoKoichi KimuraHirofumi KomakiYuji TakahashiMasayuki SasakiPublished in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment (2020)
LVDd ≥ 55 mm is a predictive factor for mortality from heart failure in patients with DMD. Complications including LA enlargement, moderate MR, and PH were found to be predictive factors for mortality from heart failure in a short period.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- duchenne muscular dystrophy
- cardiovascular events
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- risk factors
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- acute myocardial infarction
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- muscular dystrophy
- magnetic resonance
- magnetic resonance imaging
- type diabetes
- atrial fibrillation
- acute coronary syndrome
- cardiovascular disease
- contrast enhanced
- high intensity
- computed tomography
- optic nerve
- acute heart failure
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- ejection fraction