...Pietro Vincenzo Fragola; Leonardo Caló; Mario Luzi; Antonio Mammarella; Giovanni Antonini We utilized Doppler echocardiography to characterize left ventricular diastolic function in 42 patients with myotonic dystrophy (mean age 37 ± 12 years, 64% male) who had no symptoms of heart failure and had...

...Pietro V. Fragola; Camillo Autore; Giuseppina Magni; Giovanni Antonini; Antonella Picelli; Dario Cannata In this study we noninvasively followed for a mean period of 46 months 21 patients with different grades of myotonic dystrophy to evaluate the course of the involvement of the cardiac conducting...

...P.V. Fragola; G.C. Ruscitti; C. Autore; G. Antonini; A. Capria; S. Fiorito; R. Vichi; E. Pennisi; D. Cannata Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring (AEM) was performed in 22 patients (range 13–62 years; mean age 38.2 ± 12.7) with grades I, II and III of myotonic dystrophy in order to evaluate...

...Håkan Forsberg; Bert-Ove Olofsson; Staffan Andersson; Anders Henriksson; Per Bjerle Thirty-eight consecutive adult patients with myotonic dystrophy were included in a study with electrocardiography at rest and 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography. The patients were subdivided into three groups...

...Claudia Stöllberger; Josef Finsterer; Hans Keller; Bruno Mamoli; Jörg Slany The aim of this prospective noninvasive follow-up study was (1) to assess the progression of cardiac involvement (CI) in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD), Becker’s muscular dystrophy (BMD) and mitochondrial myopathy...