Sudden cardiac death of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with NT-proBNP in pericardial fluid as a useful biomarker for diagnosis of the cause of death: a case report

Sudden cardiac death of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with NT-proBNP in pericardial fluid as a useful biomarker for diagnosis of the cause of death: a case report

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most common and severest muscular dystrophies. Although it can be a cause of death when associated with cardiac muscle and/or respiratory muscles, no cases of sudden deaths in the setting of undiagnosed DMD with cardiac involvement have been reported i...

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Main Authors: Mengzhou Zhang, Rui Zhao, Tianshui Yu, Jiaoyong Li, Miao Zhang, Shukun Jiang, Linlin Wang, Guohua Zhang, Rubo Li, Baoli Zhu, Dawei Guan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020-04-01
Series:Forensic Sciences Research
Subjects:
forensic medicine
nt-probnp
sudden cardiac death
duchenne muscular dystrophy
left ventricular dysfunction
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2017.1333249

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