Manual zur indikation und durchführung der echokardiographie

T Buck, OA Breithardt, L Faber, W Fehske… - Clinical research in …, 2009 - Springer
Das vorliegende Manual gibt auf Grundlage der aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Literatur den
Konsens einer Expertengruppe zum Indikationsspektrum, zur praktischen Durchführung und …

Idebenone as a novel, therapeutic approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: results from a 12 month, double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial

GM Buyse, N Goemans, M van den Hauwe… - Neuromuscular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Early mortality in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is related to cardiac and respiratory
complications. A phase IIa double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial was …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic administration of membrane sealant prevents severe cardiac injury and ventricular dilatation in dystrophic dogs

DW Townsend, I Turner, S Yasuda… - The Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal disease of striated muscle deterioration
caused by lack of the cytoskeletal protein dystrophin. Dystrophin deficiency causes muscle …

Occult cardiac contractile dysfunction in dystrophin-deficient children revealed by cardiac magnetic resonance strain imaging

MW Ashford Jr, W Liu, SJ Lin, P Abraszewski… - Circulation, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disease characterized
by early onset of skeletal muscle degeneration and progressive weakness. Although dilated …

Early regional myocardial dysfunction in young patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Mertens, J Ganame, P Claus, N Goemans… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: In young patients (aged< 12 years) with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
(DMD), cardiac systolic function is generally described to be within the normal range. Recent …

Utility of tissue Doppler and strain rate imaging in the early detection of trastuzumab and anthracycline mediated cardiomyopathy

DS Jassal, SY Han, C Hans, A Sharma, T Fang… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Trastuzumab provides considerable therapeutic benefits in the adjuvant
setting of breast cancer. However, its use is limited by an elevated incidence of cardiotoxicity …

Systolic and diastolic myocardial dysfunction in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or systemic hypertension

CC Sampedrano, V Chetboul, V Gouni… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) and chronic systemic hypertension (SHT)
can both lead to left‐ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in cats. Assessment of LVH‐associated …

Radial strain and strain rate by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and the tissue velocity based technique in the dog

V Chetboul, F Serres, V Gouni, R Tissier… - Journal of veterinary …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Two-dimensional (2D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a new
angle-independent ultrasound technique based on tracking of speckles within the …

Subtle abnormalities in contractile function are an early manifestation of sarcomere mutations in dilated cardiomyopathy

NK Lakdawala, JJ Thune, SD Colan… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Sarcomere mutations cause both dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM); however, the steps leading from mutation to disease …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term restoration of cardiac dystrophin expression in golden retriever muscular dystrophy following rAAV6-mediated exon skipping

LT Bish, MM Sleeper, SC Forbes, B Wang, C Reynolds… - Molecular Therapy, 2012 - cell.com
Although restoration of dystrophin expression via exon skipping in both cardiac and skeletal
muscle has been successfully demonstrated in the mdx mouse, restoration of cardiac …