1991
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.41.2_part_1.259
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Myotonic heart disease

Abstract: We followed 37 patients with myotonic dystrophy for a mean of 6 years. Two developed atrial flutter or fibrillation, 6 developed a new bundle branch block, 1 developed complete heart block requiring a pacemaker, and another with progressive 1st-degree heart block and a widening QRS interval had a sudden death. Most patients had predictable, gradually progressive disease of their cardiac conduction system. We recommend that patients with progressive atrioventricular block or widening QRS interval due to myotoni… Show more

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“…8 9 19 The mean value for our patients was 2.5 (4.5) ms/year, or 1.2% per year, similar to that of 1.5% found by Hawley and colleagues. 8 Patients with larger CTG expansions were more likely to have prolonged QRS complexes at baseline, and had higher rates of increase during follow up. A previous report found no correlation between conduction disease and mutation size.…”
Section: Study Populationmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…8 9 19 The mean value for our patients was 2.5 (4.5) ms/year, or 1.2% per year, similar to that of 1.5% found by Hawley and colleagues. 8 Patients with larger CTG expansions were more likely to have prolonged QRS complexes at baseline, and had higher rates of increase during follow up. A previous report found no correlation between conduction disease and mutation size.…”
Section: Study Populationmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…5 6 Sudden death is rare, and the relative importance of ventricular tachyarrhythmias and bradyarrhythmias remains unclear. [7][8][9][10][11] Prediction of cardiac events has proved diYcult, and several potential risk factors have been evaluated. There is an association between neurological severity and both electrocardiographic conduction system disease and cardiac events.…”
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“…Cardiac involvement (CI) is a common finding in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD), Becker’s muscular dystrophy (BMD) and mitochondrial myopathy (MMP), possibly leading to cardiac dysfunction and even death [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. CI seems to be unrelated to the clinical severity or duration of the skeletal muscle disorder and can even precede the onset of neurologic symptoms [9, 10, 11, 12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aucune variable clinique, telle que la progression de la faiblesse musculaire, ne peut aider à prédire la progression de l'atteinte du système de conduction cardiaque (Hawley et al 1991). Les anomalies cardiaques les plus fréquemment observées à l'ECG consistent en intervalles PR prolongés et en délais de conduction intraventriculaire (Nguyen et al 1988).…”
Section: La Myotonieunclassified
“…D'autres anomalies fatales peuvent survenir dans la maladie: apnée du sommeil et hypertension pulmonaire (Coccagna et al 1975), prolapsus de la valvule mitrale (Winters et al 1976), insuffisance ventriculaire gauche (Church 1967), traumatismes découlant de la faiblesse musculaire (Hawley et al 1991), infarctus du myocarde (Nguyen et al 1988), asphyxie par aspiration alimentaire (De Backer et al 1976) et embolie pulmonaire associée à un prolapsus de la valvule mitrale (Cooke et al 1978 …”
Section: Causes De Décèsunclassified