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Pseudohypertrophy, or false enlargement, is an increase in the size of an organ due to infiltration of a tissue not normally found in that organ. [1] It is commonly applied to enlargement of a muscle due to infiltration of fat or connective tissue, [ 2 ] famously in Duchenne muscular dystrophy .
Hoffmann syndrome is a rare form of hypothyroid myopathy and is not to be confused with Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (a type of spinal muscular atrophy).. It was first documented in 1897 by Johann Hoffmann. [1]
Calf muscle hypertrophy [107] Muscle biopsy showed unspecified myopathic changes, many vacuoles between myofibrils. EMG showed no myopathic discharges. Myoedema response in whole body. [107] [108] Strongman syndrome (Muscle hypertrophy syndrome, myalgic [10]) General Childhood-onset Muscle hypertrophy [109] [110] Hypertrophia musculorum vera
Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy is a rare genetic condition characterized by reduced body fat and increased skeletal muscle size. [1] Affected individuals have up to twice the usual amount of muscle mass in their bodies, but increases in muscle strength are not usually congruent. [ 2 ]
Hirayama disease, also known as monomelic amyotrophy (MMA), [1] [2] is a rare motor neuron disease first described in 1959 in Japan. Its symptoms usually appear about two years after adolescent growth spurt and is significantly more common in males, with an average age of onset between 15 and 25 years.
The FDA rule mandating women be notified of their breast density is the result of intense lobbying by women who found champions in state and federal legislators to get laws introduced and passed.
[6] [8] In severe cases, impaired motor function and ability in the lower body can be observed, and bowel or bladder dysfunction may be present. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Classically, the symptoms and pain of NC are relieved by a change in position or flexion of the waist. [ 9 ]
Natural hypertrophy normally stops at full growth in the late teens. As testosterone is one of the body's major growth hormones, on average, males find hypertrophy much easier (on an absolute scale) to achieve than females, and, on average, have about 60% more muscle mass than women. [14]