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  2. Duchenne muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common type of muscular dystrophy, [3] with a median life expectancy of 27–31 years. [5] [11] However, with comprehensive care, some individuals may live into their 30s or 40s. [3] Duchenne muscular dystrophy is considerably rarer in females, occurring in approximately one in 50,000,000 live female ...

  3. Dystrophinopathy - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Gowers's sign - Wikipedia

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    Duchenne muscular dystrophy Gowers's sign is a medical sign that indicates weakness of the proximal muscles , namely those of the lower limb . The sign describes a patient that has to use their hands and arms to "walk" up their own body from a squatting position due to lack of hip and thigh muscle strength.

  5. Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Duchenne muscular dystrophy: 310200: DMD: XR: Childhood Distal limbs progressing to generalised weakness, involving respiratory muscles The most common childhood form of muscular dystrophy, affects predominantly boys (mild symptoms may occur in female carriers). Characterised by progressive muscle wasting.

  6. Mitochondrial myopathy - Wikipedia

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    Myopathies involving the DMD gene, such as Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, have secondary mitochondrial dysfunction impairing oxidative phosphorylation. [ 3 ] [ 63 ] The mechanisms leading to this mitochondrial dysfunction are many and it has yet to be elucidated which mitochondrial changes are directly due to the disease and which are ...

  7. Pseudohypertrophy - Wikipedia

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    Pseudohypertrophy, or false enlargement, is an increase in the size of an organ due to infiltration of a tissue not normally found in that organ. [1] It is commonly applied to enlargement of a muscle due to infiltration of fat or connective tissue, [2] famously in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

  8. Neurologists reveal 15 subtle migraine symptoms — that aren't ...

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    Migraine prodrome phase symptoms. There are four possible phases of a migraine attack: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome, the Mayo Clinic explains. Not everyone who gets a migraine attack will ...

  9. Muscular Dystrophy Association - Wikipedia

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    Specific examples include Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe form of muscular dystrophy, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT), which impacts peripheral nerves. MDA also addresses numerous rare disorders, such as Andersen–Tawil syndrome, Laing distal myopathy, and Walker–Warburg syndrome ...