muscular dystrophy
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Etiology
- limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- Emery-Driefuss muscular dystrophy
- facioscapulohumeral muscular dytrophy
- distal myopathy
- myotonic dystrophy
- proximal myotonic myopathy
- oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
Genetics
Complications
- nocturnal ventilatory impairment may precede awakend-state hypoventilation
- increased risk for certain cancers
- 8-fold risk for endometrial cancer
- 5-fold risk for brain tumors & ovarian cancers,
- 3-fold risk for colon cancer[2]
More general terms
More specific terms
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- distal myopathy
- distal myopathy with anterior tibial onset
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy (pseudohypertrophic)
- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
- facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD)
- Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD); Walker-Warburg syndrome FKTN-related
- limb-girdle muscular dystrophy; Erb's muscular dystrophy
- Miyoshi myopathy; late-onset distal muscular dystrophy; distal myopathy, Nonaka type
- muscular dystrophy type 1C (MDC1C)
- muscular dystrophy type 1D (MDC1D)
- muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy congenital with brain & eye anomalies A8 (MDDGA8)
- muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy congenital without mental retardation type B4 (MDDGB4)
- muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type A12 (MDDGA12)
- oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
- tardive tibial muscular dystrophy (Udd myopathy)
- Ullrich myopathy; Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy; Ullrich scleroatonic muscular dystrophy
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gadalla SM et al Cancer Risk Among Patients With Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy JAMA. 2011;306(22):2480-2486 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22166607 <Internet> http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/22/2480.short
- ↑ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development What are the types of muscular dystrophy? https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/musculardys/conditioninfo/types