Natural History of Histopathologic Changes in Cardiomyopathy of Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy
BackgroundDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked inherited myopathy that causes progressive skeletal and cardiac muscle disease.Heart lesions were described in the earliest DMD reports, and cardiomyopathy is now the leading cause of death.However, diagnostics and treatment for cardiomyopathy have lagged behind those for appendicular and r