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The FSHD Society (named "FSH Society" until 2019) [170] was founded in 1991 on the East Coast by two individuals with FSHD, Daniel Perez and Stephen Jacobsen. [171] [172] The FSHD Society claims to have advocated for the standardization of the disease name facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and its abbreviation FSHD. [170]
Many affected people will eventually become unable to walk [2] and Duchenne muscular dystrophy in particular is associated with shortened life expectancy. Muscular dystrophy was first described in the 1830s by Charles Bell. [2] The word "dystrophy" comes from the Greek dys, meaning "no, un-" and troph-meaning "nourish". [2]
Calpainopathy is the most common type of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). [2] It preferentially affects the muscles of the hip girdle and shoulder girdle. No disease modifying pharmaceuticals have been developed as of 2019, although physical therapy, lifestyle modification, and orthopedic surgery can address symptoms.
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Beevor’s sign is characteristic of spinal cord injury between T9 and T10 levels. [3] The sign has also been observed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease causing progressive weakening of the muscles of multiple areas of the body, and in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a disease named after areas of the body it preferentially weakens (face, shoulder, and upper arm).
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare progressive disease which eventually affects all voluntary muscles and involves the heart and breathing muscles in later stages. Life expectancy is estimated to be around 25–26, [18] [58] but this varies. People born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after 1990 have a median life expectancy of ...
Coats' disease is a rare extramuscular manifestation of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). A single study reported it in 1 percent of FSHD patients, most often those with FSHD type 1 (FSHD1) with large D4Z4 deletions. [4]