Dr. Diana Castro opened the specialty clinic to give patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy better quality of life
Third-grader Connor Cagle was nervous about his echocardiogram. He wiggled in the reclining chair in the exam room at the Neurology & Neuromuscular Care Center in Denton while pediatric cardiologist Dr. Reenu Eapen put gel on a small probe.
Eapen placed the probe in front of Connor so he could feel the cool gel on his finger. Both the pediatric cardiologist and Connor’s parents needed him to trust the procedure so they could see if he developed fibrosis, or scarring, around his heart. Duchenne is cruel and has no cure. Most of Castro’s patients will die in their late twenties or early thirties, and the fight to access a better quality of life through medications and specialized equipment is a difficult and expensive one.
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