Desmin-related restrictive cardiomyopathy in a pediatric patient: A case report

• Main Authors: Shruti Sharma (Author), Rajnish Juneja (Author), Gautam Sharma (Author), Sudheer Arava (Author), Ruma Ray (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Restrictive cardiomyopathies in the pediatric population have diverse etiologies, including storage diseases like hemosiderosis, glycogenoses and desmin with its associated proteins. Desmin-related myopathy is a rare familial disorder of the cardiac and skeletal muscle characterized by intrasarcopla...