title: Progressive muscular dystrophy of heart: diagnosis easily missed by clinicians.
abstract: Muscular dystrophy connotes a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by progressive wasting and weakness of the skeletal muscles. In several forms of muscular dystrophy, cardiac dysfunction occurs, and cardiac disease may even be the predominant manifestation of the underlying genetic myopathy. We present a case of progressive muscular dystrophy of the heart in which the initial and only manifestation was sudden death in a young man.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak.
authors.forename: Sumiti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duhan
authors.forename: Nisha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marwah
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hasija
authors.forename: Rajeev
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002423:Cause of Death; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Autopsy; heart; muscular dystrophies; sudden death