Cardiac complications in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are the result of cardiac muscle involvement that accompanies the deterioration of skeletal muscle in the disease. The use of ...

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than a simple disorder of cholesterol deposition. While immune cells such as ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating genetic disorder affecting approximately 1 in 3,500-5,000 newborn males worldwide. It is characterized by progressive degeneration of skeletal, ...

Nationally, there has been a rise in the number of children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease ...