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We report here for the first time the case of a symptomatic DMD carrier, who had a heart transplant for a severe dilated cardiomyopathy. Dystrophin immunohistochemistry, western blot and analysis of X-chromosome inactivation on leucocytes, and skeletal and cardiac muscle biopsies on the explanted heart were performed. The patient was a heterozygote for exons 50-52 deletion in the dystrophin gene. The number of dystrophin-deficient fibres in the heart was much higher than in skeletal muscle. On the other hand, the explanted heart showed a non-skewed pattern of X-chromosome inactivation, as in leukocytes and skeletal muscle. The adverse cardiac course may be explained by the absence of regeneration among cardiomyocytes.
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