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24-hour electrocardiographic study in myotonic dystrophy. 1988

H Forsberg, and B O Olofsson, and S Andersson, and A Henriksson, and P Bjerle

Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.

Thirty-eight consecutive adult patients with myotonic dystrophy were included in a study with electrocardiography at rest and 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography. The patients were subdivided into three groups according to the severity of the disease. The prevalence of abnormal electrocardiograms at rest was 31, 50 and 100% in patients with mild, moderate and severe disease, respectively. The main characteristics observed at ambulatory electrocardiography were a high frequency of sinus bradycardia (58%) and intermittent atrioventricular block II (8%). These bradyarrhythmias were not correlated to the severity of the disease. Sustained atrial fibrillation or flutter was found in 3 patients (8%), all with the most severe form of the disease. Ambulatory electrocardiography should be used deliberately in the evaluation of patients with myotonic dystrophy and symptoms compatible with cardiac arrhythmias.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D008991	Monitoring, Physiologic	The continuous measurement of physiological processes, blood pressure, heart rate, renal output, reflexes, respiration, etc., in a patient or experimental animal; includes pharmacologic monitoring, the measurement of administered drugs or their metabolites in the blood, tissues, or urine.	Patient Monitoring,Monitoring, Physiological,Physiologic Monitoring,Monitoring, Patient,Physiological Monitoring
D009223	Myotonic Dystrophy	Neuromuscular disorder characterized by PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOTONIA, and various multisystem atrophies. Mild INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY may also occur. Abnormal TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION in the 3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS of DMPK PROTEIN gene is associated with Myotonic Dystrophy 1. DNA REPEAT EXPANSION of zinc finger protein-9 gene intron is associated with Myotonic Dystrophy 2.	Dystrophia Myotonica,Myotonic Dystrophy, Congenital,Myotonic Myopathy, Proximal,Steinert Disease,Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy,Dystrophia Myotonica 1,Dystrophia Myotonica 2,Myotonia Atrophica,Myotonia Dystrophica,Myotonic Dystrophy 1,Myotonic Dystrophy 2,PROMM (Proximal Myotonic Myopathy),Proximal Myotonic Myopathy,Ricker Syndrome,Steinert Myotonic Dystrophy,Steinert's Disease,Atrophica, Myotonia,Atrophicas, Myotonia,Congenital Myotonic Dystrophies,Disease, Steinert,Disease, Steinert's,Dystrophia Myotonica 2s,Dystrophia Myotonicas,Dystrophica, Myotonia,Dystrophicas, Myotonia,Dystrophies, Congenital Myotonic,Dystrophies, Myotonic,Dystrophy, Congenital Myotonic,Dystrophy, Myotonic,Dystrophy, Steinert Myotonic,Myopathies, Proximal Myotonic,Myopathy, Proximal Myotonic,Myotonia Atrophicas,Myotonia Dystrophicas,Myotonic Dystrophies,Myotonic Dystrophies, Congenital,Myotonic Dystrophy, Steinert,Myotonic Myopathies, Proximal,Myotonica, Dystrophia,Myotonicas, Dystrophia,PROMMs (Proximal Myotonic Myopathy),Proximal Myotonic Myopathies,Steinerts Disease,Syndrome, Ricker
D011446	Prospective Studies	Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.	Prospective Study,Studies, Prospective,Study, Prospective
D004562	Electrocardiography	Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY.	12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D005260	Female		Females
D006339	Heart Rate	The number of times the HEART VENTRICLES contract per unit of time, usually per minute.	Cardiac Rate,Chronotropism, Cardiac,Heart Rate Control,Heartbeat,Pulse Rate,Cardiac Chronotropy,Cardiac Chronotropism,Cardiac Rates,Chronotropy, Cardiac,Control, Heart Rate,Heart Rates,Heartbeats,Pulse Rates,Rate Control, Heart,Rate, Cardiac,Rate, Heart,Rate, Pulse
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths

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