Be careful about abdominal discomfort in adult patients with muscular dystrophy

A Fayssoil; T Ritzenthaler; D Luis; T Hullin; B Clair; D Annane; D Orlikowski

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2014.06.003

Be careful about abdominal discomfort in adult patients with muscular dystrophy

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2014 Aug-Sep;170(8-9):548-50. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2014.06.003. Epub 2014 Sep 2.

Authors

A Fayssoil¹, T Ritzenthaler², D Luis², T Hullin², B Clair², D Annane², D Orlikowski²

Affiliations

¹ Raymond-Poincaré hospital, AP-HP, university of Versailles SQY, 104, boulevard Raymond-Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France. Electronic address: fayssoil2000@yahoo.fr.
² Raymond-Poincaré hospital, AP-HP, university of Versailles SQY, 104, boulevard Raymond-Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France.

PMID: 25189677
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2014.06.003

Abstract

Muscular dystrophies are genetic muscular disease with disability. Heart failure is a classical complication mainly in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). We report 2 cases of severe acute heart failure revealed by abdominal discomfort in a patient with DMD and in a patient with gamma-sarcoglycanopathy.

Keywords: Acute heart failure; Ascite; Ascites; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Gamma-sarcoglycanopathie; Gamma-sarcoglycanopathy; Insuffisance cardiaque aiguë; Myopathie de Duchenne.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / etiology
Acute Disease
Adult
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / etiology*
Humans
Male
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / complications*
Sarcoglycanopathies / complications*

Supplementary concepts

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, type 2C