Heart Transplantation in Becker Muscular Dystrophy Patient: Case-Report of a 15-Year Follow-up

Cardiac Transplantation in Patients with Muscular Dystrophy: A Case Report and Review of Literature

“…Since 1988, cardiac transplantation has been reported both in case reports and case series in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and BMD with end-stage heart failure as a final treatment option with successful outcomes [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. The clinical neuromuscular status including the degree of muscular or respiratory weakness and outcome of the transplantation are summarized in Table 1.…”

“…The clinical neuromuscular status including the degree of muscular or respiratory weakness and outcome of the transplantation are summarized in Table 1. Some of the dystrophinopathy patients who had successful cardiac transplantation were neurologically asymptomatic at the time of transplantation despite the severe dilated cardiomyopathy necessitating cardiac transplantation [10,11,14,21,22,27]. Other studies reported patients with dystrophinopathy-related cardiomyopathy with mild to moderate muscular weakness who tolerated the transplantation procedure well; most of these were BMD patients rather than DMD [7,8,12,14,15,18,21,23].…”