Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies

It is now accepted worldwide that cardiac involvement in Duchenne and Becker muscular Dystrophies, is a constant feature. The concurrent impairment of the heart as a muscle in dystrophic process was an inspired idea by Prof. Giovanni Nigro ten years before the discovery of the dystrophin gene, occur...

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Autor principal: Politano, Luisa
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33458573
http://dx.doi.org/10.36185/2532-1900-021
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description It is now accepted worldwide that cardiac involvement in Duchenne and Becker muscular Dystrophies, is a constant feature. The concurrent impairment of the heart as a muscle in dystrophic process was an inspired idea by Prof. Giovanni Nigro ten years before the discovery of the dystrophin gene, occurred in 1987. This article is intended to be a recognition to him and to the Neapolitan School he directed for the contribution in the knowledge of cardiac involvement in the course of Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) Muscular Dystrophies and in DMD/BMD carriers.
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spelling pubmed-77834282021-01-14 Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies Politano, Luisa Acta Myol Original Article It is now accepted worldwide that cardiac involvement in Duchenne and Becker muscular Dystrophies, is a constant feature. The concurrent impairment of the heart as a muscle in dystrophic process was an inspired idea by Prof. Giovanni Nigro ten years before the discovery of the dystrophin gene, occurred in 1987. This article is intended to be a recognition to him and to the Neapolitan School he directed for the contribution in the knowledge of cardiac involvement in the course of Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) Muscular Dystrophies and in DMD/BMD carriers. Pacini Editore Srl 2020-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7783428/ /pubmed/33458573 http://dx.doi.org/10.36185/2532-1900-021 Text en ©2020 Gaetano Conte Academy - Mediterranean Society of Myology, Naples, Italy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) license. The article can be used by giving appropriate credit and mentioning the license, but only for non-commercial purposes and only in the original version. For further information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
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Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title_full Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title_fullStr Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title_full_unstemmed Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title_short Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
title_sort giovanni nigro and the naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in duchenne/becker muscular dystrophies
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33458573
http://dx.doi.org/10.36185/2532-1900-021
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