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

• Main Authors: Mengzhou Zhang (Author), Rui Zhao (Author), Tianshui Yu (Author), Jiaoyong Li (Author), Miao Zhang (Author), Shukun Jiang (Author), Linlin Wang (Author), Guohua Zhang (Author), Rubo Li (Author), Baoli Zhu (Author), Dawei Guan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford University Press, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...