[Duchenne muscular dystrophy: electrocardiographic analysis of 131 patients].

Background: Cardiac involvement is known to occur in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The electrocardiogram (ECG) shows some typical changes in DMD, which makes it a useful test for the diagnosis of cardiac lesion in this disease.

Objective: To evaluate the electrocardiographic changes in patients with DMD and to correlate these changes with the age of the population studied.

Transitory myocardial ischemia in patients with vascular lower limb amputation: relationship with long-term atherothrombotic events.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of asymptomatic transitory myocardial ischemia during scintigraphy among amputees of vascular etiology as well as to ascertain correlation with atherothrombotic events during long-term follow-up.

Design: A cohort, mean follow-up of 2.1 yrs study was performed in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic with 58 lower limb vascular amputees who were referred for rehabilitation, asymptomatic for coronary heart disease.