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	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy is the name given to a group of inherited muscle diseases, which cause progressive and selective degeneration and weakness of voluntary muscles.
		Spinal Muscular Atrophy is one of the neuromuscular diseases.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an incurable disease of childhood.
	www.healthinsite.gov.au /topics/Muscular_Dystrophy (697 words)

	OHSU Health - Muscular Dystrophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by an X-linked recessive gene.
		In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), one-third of all cases are thought to be new mutations in the family (not inherited from the mother).
		Muscular dystrophy is usually seen in children before the age of 5, with weakness typically affecting the shoulder and pelvic muscle as one of the initial symptoms.
	www.ohsuhealth.com /htaz/neuro/disorder/muscular/index.cfm (1000 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy is the term used to describe a group of inherited disorders that cause progressive muscle weakness.
		Treatment of muscular dystrophy is mainly directed at preventing the complications of weakness, including decreased mobility and dexterity, contractures, scoliosis, heart defects, and respiratory weaknesses.
		The selection of anesthesia is critical in muscular dystrophy patients because of the possibility of malignant hyperthermia, a severe reaction to halothane anesthetic.
	www.hmc.psu.edu /healthinfo/m/musculardystrophy.htm (1669 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Information on Healthline
		Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of inherited disorders in which strength and muscle bulk gradually decline.
		Distal muscular dystrophy (DD): DD is a group of rare muscle diseases that have weakness and wasting of the distal (farthest from the center) muscles of the fore-arms, hands, lower legs, and feet in common.
		Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD): CMD is a rare group of muscular dystrophies that have in common the presence of muscle weakness at birth (congenital), and abnormal muscle biopsies.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/muscular-dystrophy (1016 words)

	Muscular dystrophy Introduction - Health encyclopaedia - NHS Direct
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic (inherited) condition where slow, progressive, muscle wasting leads to increasing weakness and disability.
		Most forms of muscular dystrophy are caused by mutations (cellular changes) in the genes that are responsible for the structure and functioning of a persons muscles.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common and most severe type of muscular dystrophy, and is caused by a faulty gene that prevents the production of a protein called dystrophin.
	www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk /articles/article.aspx?articleId=257 (450 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that gradually weakens the body's muscles.
		When a doctor first suspects that a child has muscular dystrophy, he or she probably will do a physical exam, take a family history, and ask about any problems - particularly those affecting the muscles - that the child might be experiencing.
		Muscular dystrophy is often degenerative, so kids may pass through different stages as the disease progresses and require different kinds of treatment.
	kidshealth.org /parent/medical/bones/muscular_dystrophy.html (1762 words)

	BBC - Health - Conditions - Muscular dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophies are a group of more than 20 different genetic neuro-muscular disorders, some more debilitating than others.
		Muscular dystrophies are distinguished by their symptoms, age of onset - and how they're passed on from parents to child.
		For example, in fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy the muscles of the face, shoulders, and upper arms are usually affected first.
	www.bbc.co.uk /health/conditions/muscular1.shtml (823 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy - DEFINITION, DESCRIPTION, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, PROGNOSIS, PREVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is the name for a group of disorders in which muscle size and strength gradually decrease over time.
		A form of muscular dystrophy that begins in late childhood to early adulthood; affects both men and women; and causes weakness in the muscles of the face, shoulders, and upper arms.
		A form of muscular dystrophy that begins in late childhood to early adulthood; affects both men and women; and causes weakness in the muscles around the hips and shoulders.
	www.faqs.org /health/Sick-V3/Muscular-Dystrophy.html (3257 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that gradually weakens the body's muscles.
		When a doctor first suspects that a child has muscular dystrophy, he or she probably will do a physical exam, take a family history, and ask about any problems - particularly those affecting the muscles - that the child might be experiencing.
		Muscular dystrophy is often degenerative, so kids may pass through different stages as the disease progresses and require different kinds of treatment.
	www.kidshealth.org /parent/medical/bones/muscular_dystrophy.html (1762 words)

	Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker types - Genetics Home Reference
		Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic conditions characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting.
		The Duchenne and Becker types of muscular dystrophy primarily affect the skeletal muscles, which are used for movement, and the muscles of the heart.
		Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies have similar signs and symptoms and are caused by mutations in the same gene.
	ghr.nlm.nih.gov /condition=musculardystrophyduchenneandbeckertypes (884 words)

	Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The muscular dystrophies are the most-known hereditary diseases.
		Accordingly, muscular dystrophies are much more common in males, as females have two copies of the X chromosome while males have only one.
		The myotonia (delayed relaxation of a muscle after a strong contraction) occurring in myotonic muscular dystrophy may be treated with medications such as quinine, phenytoin or mexiletine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muscular_dystrophy (321 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.
		Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is the term for all types of MD that show signs in babies and young children, although the MD isn't always diagnosed right away.
		The life expectancy (in other words, how long a person may live) for many of these forms of muscular dystrophy depends on the degree to which a person's muscles are weakened as well as how much the heart and lungs are affected.
	kidshealth.org /teen/diseases_conditions/bones/muscular_dystrophy.html (825 words)

	Muscular dystrophy
		The first sign of this type of muscular dystrophy is usually drooping of the eyelids, followed by weakness of the muscles of the eye, face and throat, resulting in difficulty swallowing.
		Duchenne and Becker's muscular dystrophies are passed from mother to son through one of the mother's genes in a pattern called X-linked recessive inheritance.
		Because muscular dystrophies are inherited disorders, genetic counseling may be helpful if you're considering having children and to assess the risk of the disease in other family members.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/DS/00200.html (2199 words)

	MedlinePlus: Muscular Dystrophy
		The primary NIH organization for research on Muscular Dystrophy is the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of more than 30 inherited diseases that cause muscle weakness and muscle loss.
		The different muscular dystrophies vary in who they affect and the symptoms.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/musculardystrophy.html (448 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
		Men with typical Becker muscular dystrophy may become unable to walk in their 40s or 50s or even later but there are less frequent and more rapidly progressive variants of Becker muscular dystrophy in which this may happen in the 20s or 30s.
		People with Becker muscular dystrophy have been employed in a range of jobs from steel workers to research scientist though occupations requiring a considerable amount of physical activity are not feasible for most people who have the condition.
		Once Becker muscular dystrophy is known to affect one male in a family it is possible by simple blood tests to identify or rule it out in any other boys at risk from birth onwards.
	www.muscular-dystrophy.org /information_resources/factsheets/medical_conditions_factsheets/becker_muscular.html (1263 words)

	A.R.E. Health & Rejuvenation Research Center - The Cayce Health Database
		The muscular dystrophies may be defined as a group of primary, muscular wasting degenerative diseases, characterized by progressive muscular wasting and weakness, and occurring usually in the first three decades of life.
		More commonly, the muscular dystrophies are seen without the syndrome of myotonia (continuous muscular tension or contraction), but its occurrence leads to a sometimes separate classification as a myotonic disorder.
		The muscular dystrophies would seem to be a group of diseases in which the primary pathology is found in the muscles and is in the nature of an abnormal development or a degeneration of the muscular tissue.
	www.edgarcayce.org /health/database/chdata/data/prmd3.html (3139 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Muscular dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve progressive muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue.
		Lambert-Eaton syndrome and myasthenia gravis also have symptoms that may be similar to early stages of some types of muscular dystrophies, so these disorders must be ruled out before muscular dystrophy is diagnosed.
		Often, there is a loss of muscle mass (wasting), which may be hard to see because some types of muscular dystrophy cause a build up of fat and connective tissue that makes the muscle appear larger.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/001190.htm (622 words)

	DMD DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The muscular dystrophies are a group of muscle diseases which have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and each causes a characteristic, selective pattern of weakness.
		Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD), which is most often of autosomal recessive inheritance, may be difficult or impossible to distinguish from BMD which is X-linked recessive.
		Often the probability that a woman is a carrier is so low that the risk of muscular dystrophy to her baby is much lower than the average risk of serious birth defect or genetic disease.
	www.mda.org.au /specific/mdadmd.html (2382 words)

	Types of Muscular Dystrophy - Nervous System Diseases
		Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue.
		There are nine types of muscular dystrophy, but in each type there is an eventual loss of strength, increasing disability, and possible deformity.
		Becker dystrophy is often classified as a less severe form of Duchenne dystrophy.
	www.umm.edu /nervous/musctype.htm (515 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is an inherited disease of skeletal (voluntary) muscles and the most common form of childhood muscular dystrophy.
		Defective genes are the cause of muscular dystrophy.
		Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is diagnosed when special tests show extremely low levels of the protein dystrophin in the muscle.
	www.csmc.edu /5278.html (453 words)

	DoctorYourself.com - Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy and individual metabolic patterns: The possibilities of a nutritional therapeutic approach.
		To a family with a child with muscular dystrophy, it must seem like the worst form of Monday Morning Quarterbacking to say what might have caused the disease their child already has.
		The most remarkable revelation of all is that muscular dystrophy is described as easier to cure in children, and easier still with added B vitamins and vitamin C (p 644).
	www.doctoryourself.com /dystrophy.html (3528 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles which control movement.
		Muscular Dystrophy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
		This means that Muscular Dystrophy, or a subtype of Muscular Dystrophy, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /m/musdys/intro.htm (740 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy - DrGreene.com
		The muscular dystrophies are a group of illnesses that share several things in common.
		Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy that is also an X-linked recessive condition, with affected boys born to mothers who are carriers.
		Depending on the type of muscular dystrophy, complications may also include cataracts, diabetes, heart disease, hypothyroidism, immunodeficiency, mental retardation, scoliosis, seizures, or testicular atrophy.
	www.drgreene.com /21_1443.html (933 words)

	Muscular dystrophy - MayoClinic.com
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of rare inherited muscle diseases in which muscle fibers are unusually susceptible to damage.
		In the late stages of muscular dystrophy, fat and connective tissue often replace muscle fibers.
		The most common types of muscular dystrophy appear to be due to a genetic deficiency of the muscle protein dystrophin.
	www.mayoclinic.com /health/muscular-dystrophy/DS00200 (187 words)

	Muscular dystrophy Information on Healthline
		Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders characterized by progressive
		Some types, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, are ultimately fatal while other types have associated muscle weakness but cause little disability and are associated with normal life expectancy.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be detected with about 95% accuracy by genetic studies performed during pregnancy.
	www.healthline.com /adamcontent/muscular-dystrophy (630 words)

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