Disease Information for Muscular dystrophy
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A general term for a group of inherited disorders which are characterized by progressive degeneration of skeletal muscles (MUSCLE, SKELETAL).
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Demographics & Risk Factors[next]
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- Population/Pediatrics population
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Boy patient
- Population/Child
- Population/Children/all
- Population/Male
- Population Group
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Presentation/Congestive heart failure/child
- Signs & Symptoms
- Child
- Transverse smile
- Dysphagia/progressive
- Glossoptosis/Swallowing tongue
- Flabby muscles
- Gowers sign positive
- Hypotonia
- Leg fatigue
- Leg pains/squatting
- Muscle atrophy/wasting
- Muscle weakness
- Myasthenic weakness
- Neck weakness/head nodding
- Pelvic/limb girdle weakness/bilateral
- Proximal lower extremity weakness
- Proximal muscle weakness
- Proximal upper extremity weakness
- Shoulder/limb girdle weakness/bilateral
- Symmetrical muscle involvement/stiffness
- Toe walking
- Unable to stand up from sitting position
- Weak hand grip
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Weakness climbing stairs
- Weakness, legs, bilateral
- Weakness, trunk muscles
- Clumsiness/poor coordination
- Dropping things
- Flaccid muscle paralysis
- Grip strength decreased
- Hyporeflexia/DTRs decreased
- Limb weakness/signs
- Neonatal hypotonia/floppy-baby sign
- Poor head control/infant
- Unable to walk
- Waddling gait
- Weak lower extremities
- Weakness/Diffuse motor loss
- Apnea In Children
- Shallow breathing
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Falling
- Fatigue/Tiredness in Children
- Fatigue/tiredness/exhaustion
- Unable to stand
- Weakness
- Typical Clinical Presentation
Laboratory Tests[previous][top][next]
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- Aldolase, serum (Lab)
- ALT/SGPT (Alanine transferase) (Lab)
- Aspartamine aminotransferase (SGOT, AST) (Lab)
- AST/SGOT (aspartamine transferase) (Lab)
- CK-MB (Lab)
- CK-MM (Lab)
- CPK/CK/Creatine kinase/Creatine phosphokinase (Lab)
- Creatine, serum (Lab)
- LDH/Lactic Dehydrogenase (Lab)
- URINE Amino acids
- URINE Creatine
- URINE Hydroxyproline
- URINE Myoglobin
Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]
- Pathology
- Electrodiagnosis
- EKG (ECG)
- X-RAY
- X-RAY With contrast
Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
- Rule Outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Acidosis, respiratory
- Acute respiratory failure/Respiratory arrest
- Aminoglycoside neuromuscular blockade
- Apnea
- Atelectasis, pulmonary
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyopathy, secondary
- Chronic bowel pseudo-obstruction syndrome
- Congestive heart failure
- Esophageal motility disorder
- Gastric retention/chronic
- Kyphoscoliosis
- Kyphosis
- Lateral scoliosis/Rotosclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Paraparesis
- Respiratory muscle paralysis
- Respiratory muscle weakness
- Scoliosis
- Heart Failure in a Child
Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]
- Class
- CLASS/Pediatric disorders (ex)
- CLASS/Motor neuron/unit disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Muscle disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Muscle/tendon/extremities (category)
- CLASS/Striated muscle disorder (ex)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Adult variant disease milder
- Pathophysiology/Gene locus Chromosome X.
- Pathophysiology/Gene locus Chromosome Xp
- Pathophysiology/Gene Locus Identified/OMIM database
- Pathophysiology/Genomic indentifiers (polymorphism/snip/mutations)
- Pathophysiology/Defective dystrophin muscle cells
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- Synonym
- Synonym/MD
- Synonym
Treatment[previous][top][next]
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- SX/Stem cell transplant potential/future
- Drug Therapy - Indication
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