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Clinical utility of 12-lead electrocardiogram in evaluating heart disease in patients with muscular dystrophy: Assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy, conduction disease, and cardiomyopathy.

Anish NikhanjHaran YogasundaramShane KimberZaeem A SiddiqiGavin Y Oudit
Published in: Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc (2021)
The identification of LBBB and fQRS was linked to cardiomyopathy in patients with MD, while ECG-LVH was of limited utility. Importantly, these findings can be applied to effectively screen a broad cohort of MD patients for structural heart disease and prompt further evaluation and therapeutic intervention.
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