Cardiac dyssynchrony in a Becker cohort: preliminary results

Background We previously reported the early detection of cardiac motion dyssynchrony in GRMD dogs (a model for Duchenne myopathy with cardiac involvement). In this new work, we applied the same dyssynchrony index in a cohort of 88 Becker patients of various age (38,7 ±13,6 years; range from 18 to 68) and disease burden (number of segment count with any Gd late enhancement : 4,37 ± 3,14 ; range from 0 to 12). We compared the data obtained to those in 10 control subjects.