since cardiac and skeletal muscle pathologic findings have not been adequately studied for the majority of the approximately 50 genetic disorders causing cardiomyopathy or otherwise affecting cardiac function described to date , the data indicate primarily that skeletal muscle biopsy will undoubtedly be more useful in cardiomyopathic disorders when the appropriate correlative studies of cardiac and skeletal muscle in such diseases have been done .
C0878544
cardiomyopathic
C0026848
skeletal muscle