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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) leads to structural heart disease, including dilated cardiomyopathy, in 90% of patients >18 years of age. Despite the ubiquity of cardiomyopathy associated with DMD, ventricular aneurysms in these patients have rarely been reported. We present a case of a basal inferoposterior aneurysm of the left ventricle in a 23-year-old male patient with DMD.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000834 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-8-49 | DOI Listing |
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