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Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy (Nutritional Myopathy or White Muscle Disease) is a disease caused by a deficiency of selenium and vitamin E in dietary intake. [1] Soils that contains low levels of selenium produce forages and grains that are deficient in selenium.
The diagnosis of muscular dystrophy is based on the results of muscle biopsy, increased creatine phosphokinase (CpK3), electromyography, and genetic testing. A physical examination and the patient's medical history will help the doctor determine the type of muscular dystrophy.
Distal muscular dystrophy, also called distal myopathy, is essentially any muscle disease that preferentially affects the hands and/or feet, a much less common pattern than proximal muscle weakness. Late adult-onset type 1; Late adult-onset type 2a; Late adult-onset type 2b; Early adult-onset type 1; Early adult-onset type 2; Early adult-onset ...
Central core disease (CCD), also known as central core myopathy, is an autosomal dominant inherited [1] muscle disorder present from birth that negatively affects the skeletal muscles. It was first described by Shy and Magee in 1956. [2] [3] It is characterized by the appearance of the myofibril under the microscope. [4]
[11] which was initially funded in part by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. [12] Sweeney's lab had published work in 1999 showing that gentamicin could "cure" a rodent model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy [ 11 ] [ 13 ] and this led to the collaboration with PTC that produced ataluren—Sweeney was the last author on the initial publication of ...
There are four main types of Keshan disease: acute, subacute, chronic, and latent. Some signs and symptoms of acute Keshan disease include dizziness, malaise, nausea, chills, loss of appetite, projectile vomiting, pallor, low arterial blood pressure (less than 80/60 mmHg), dyspnea, precardiac (anterior to the heart) or substernal (behind or below the sternum) discomfort, cardiogenic shock, and ...
Genetic testing Dystrophinopathy refers to a spectrum of diseases due to mutations in the DMD gene, which encodes for the dystrophin protein found in muscle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The severe end of the spectrum includes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), and DMD -associated dilated cardiomyopathy .
In neuromuscular disease, a variety of factors can influence the compositional and micro structural aspects of muscle, including most notably muscle fiber atrophy and disorganization, the deposition of fat and connective tissues, as occurs in muscular dystrophy, and the presence of inflammation, among many other pathologies. EIM captures these ...