Cardiac insufficiency in a child with Duchenne's progressive muscular dystrophy

Authors

  • Lisset Ley Vega Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Jesús Arturo Satorre Ygualada Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Lourdes Rodríguez Royero Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

muscular dystrophy, duchenne/complications, heart failure, congestive, diagnosis, clinical, child

Abstract

In 1861 Duchenne described the case of a male patient suffering from a pseudohyperthrophic progressive myopathy with a heredity link to gender. Duchenne's progressive muscular dystrophy is considered the most common and important form of this group of muscular illnesses. It has a recessive character linked to the X chromosome and affects one out of 3 000 born alive males. The abnormal gene is located at the locus Xp21. It hinders the synthesis of dystrophin causing the proliferation of a collagen and the fat infiltration of the muscular tissue. A 13 year old male patient, who had a diagnosis of Duchenne progressive muscular atrophy since age 5, is presented. In these cases the therapeutic procedures are limited to the treatment of the complications associated to Duchenne muscular dystrophy for there is not a specific therapy that stops the progression of this illness nowadays. A multidiscipline consultation due to the apparent recovery of the patient was carried out and it was decided to discharge him. His subsequent evolution presented some hospitalizations due to recurrent bronchopneumonia and cardiovascular distress events. The patient finally died.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Lisset Ley Vega, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I y II Grado en Pediatría. Máster en Atención Integral al Niño. Profesora Instructora del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Jesús Arturo Satorre Ygualada, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I y II Grado en Cardiología. Profesor Asistente del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Lourdes Rodríguez Royero, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Radiología. Profesora Instructora del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
Ley Vega L, Satorre Ygualada JA, Rodríguez Royero L. Cardiac insufficiency in a child with Duchenne’s progressive muscular dystrophy. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2009 Jan. 1 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];3(1):50-4. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/427

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): January-April

Section

Case Reports

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).