Cardiorespiratory management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy : emerging therapies, neuromuscular genetics, and new clinical challenges

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The life-limiting complications of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) include loss of lung function and progressive cardiomyopathy; when patients are treated with assisted ventilation, cardiac function becomes the main determinant of survival. Therapy for DMD is changing rapidly, with the emergence of new genetic and molecular therapeutic options, the proliferation of which has fostered the perception that DMD is a potentially curable disease. However, data for respiratory and cardiac outcomes are scarce and available evidence is not uniformly positive. Patients who share a dystrophin (DMD) genotype can have highly divergent cardiorespiratory phenotypes; genetic modifiers of DMD gene expression are a probable cause of respiratory and cardiac phenotypic variability and discordance. In this Personal View, we provide an overview of new and emerging DMD therapies, highlighting the limitations of current research and considering strategies to incorporate cardiorespiratory assessments into clinical trials. We explore how genetic modifiers could be used to predict cardiorespiratory natural history and how manipulation of such modifiers might represent a promising therapeutic strategy. Finally, we examine the changing role of respiratory physicians, cardiologists, and intensive care clinicians on the frontline of a challenging new clinical landscape.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine - 10(2022), 4 vom: 31. Apr., Seite 403-420

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Birnkrant, David J [VerfasserIn]
Bello, Luca [VerfasserIn]
Butterfield, Russell J [VerfasserIn]
Carter, John C [VerfasserIn]
Cripe, Linda H [VerfasserIn]
Cripe, Timothy P [VerfasserIn]
McKim, Douglas A [VerfasserIn]
Nandi, Deipanjan [VerfasserIn]
Pegoraro, Elena [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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Date Completed 05.04.2022

Date Revised 23.05.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00581-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338939423