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  2. Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    The diagnosis of muscular dystrophy is based on the results of muscle biopsy, ... By age 10, the child may need braces and by age 12, ...

  3. Duchenne muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare progressive disease that 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] [59] but this varies. People born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after 1990 have a median life expectancy of approximately ...

  4. List of neuromuscular disorders - Wikipedia

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    Distal muscular dystrophy, also called distal myopathy, is essentially any muscle disease that preferentially affects the hands and/or feet, a much less common pattern than proximal muscle weakness. Late adult-onset type 1; Late adult-onset type 2a; Late adult-onset type 2b; Early adult-onset type 1; Early adult-onset type 2; Early adult-onset ...

  5. Their son died at 25. Then they discovered his extraordinary ...

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    As a child, Mats had been diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that sparks early onset muscle weakness – by the time of his death at the age of 25, Mats’s mobility ...

  6. Mom Has 3 Days to Get Son Life-Saving Treatment for Muscular ...

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    Melanie Sanford's son Hudson was diagnosed with Duchenne, a fatal, progressive form of muscular dystrophy. She was told Hudson would only live until age 28 until she found hope in a breakthrough ...

  7. Calpainopathy - Wikipedia

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    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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