Muscular dystrophies

Muscular dystrophies refer to a broad group of conditions that result in increasing weakening and breakdown of skeletal musculature over time.

These include

• Duchenne muscular dystrophy (considered most common) 
• Becker muscular dystrophy
• facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
• congenital muscular dystrophies (CMD)
  • CMD 1
  • CMD 2: Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD)
  • CMD 3: Santavuori muscle-eye-brain (MEB) Finnish-type
  • CMD4: Walker-Warburg syndrome
• Emery-Dreiffus muscular dystrophy
• limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD)
• distal muscular dystrophy
• myotonic muscular dystrophy
  • myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) (Steinert disease)
  • myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) (proximal myotonic myopathy) 
• oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

Siehe auch:

• Myotone Dystrophie Typ 1
• Fazioskapulohumerale Muskeldystrophie

und weiter:

• Kongenitale Muskeldystrophie Typ Ullrich
• Gastroparese
• Hauptmann-Thannhauser-Syndrom