Adult onset metabolic/mitochondrial myopathies and dystrophies
Adult onset metabolic/mitochondrial myopathies and dystrophies
Adult onset metabolic/mitochondrial myopathies and dystrophies
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Duchenne / Becker muscular dystrophy<br />
DMD/BMD the most common form of LGMD<br />
X-Linked, 1/3000 live male births<br />
Mutations in dystrophin gene<br />
1/3 sporadic<br />
Manifesting female carriers<br />
Muscle, brain, skin<br />
each male with limb girdle weakness should first be<br />
tested for a dystrophinopathy