TY  - JOUR
TI  - Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in the Setting of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: More Questions Than Answers”
AB  - To the Editors, Thank you for your attention and interest in our manuscript.1 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe, progressive, muscle-wasting disease that leads to difficulties with movement and eventually to the need for assisted ventilation and premature death. The disease is caused by mutations encoding dystrophin that abolish the production of dystrophin in muscle. Dystrophin is a cytoskeleton protein. That is why DMD primarily affects muscle cells and it does not affect vascular structures. Therefore, no association of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has been reported.
AU  - Karakurt, Cemsit
AU  - ELKIRAN, OZLEM
AU  - Hidayet, Şıho
AU  - Maras, Serdar Akin
AU  - öncül, mehmet
DO  - 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2022.2490
PY  - 2023
JO  - The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
SN  - 2149-2263
SP  - 119
EP  - 120
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1168626
ER  -