Cardiac features of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy caused by lamin A/C gene mutations

European Heart Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2227-2236

  Sanna, Tommaso ^a   Dello Russo, Antonio ^a   Toniolo, Daniela ^b   Vytopil, Michal ^b   Pelargonio, Gemma ^a   De Martino, Giuseppe ^a   Ricci, Enzo ^a   Silvestri, Gabriella ^a   Giglio, Vincenzo ^c   Messano, Loredana ^a   Zachara, Elisabetta ^d   Bellocci, Fulvio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Center for Neuromuscular Diseases   (Italy)

^d SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardiac disease; Cardiomyopathy; Lamin A C; Muscular dystrophy; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A; LAMIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; LMNA GENE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ARRHYTHMIA; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, EMERY-DREIFUSS; MUTATION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SYNCOPE;

EID: 10744225746     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehj.2003.09.020     Document Type: Article

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