Abnormal congenital condition characterized by progressive weakness and wasting of the leg and pelvic muscles. Often involves the heart muscle. Affects only male children. Symptoms usually begin between the ages of 3 and 5. Currently not curable.
An X-linked recessive disorder of muscle caused by an absence of a protein known as dystrophin. Symptoms are caused by muscle weakness that results in progressive difficulty with walking, mobility and activities of daily living. There is presently no cure or treatment. (See Deflazacort).
Also called infantile muscular atrophy, this birth defect causes severe weakness, delayed walking and other problems. It occurs only in boys.
An inherited sex-linked muscular disease.
Features include: onset between 1 and 6 years, manifesting as clumsiness, falling, unusual gait, Gower sign, enlarged thigh muscles with progressive weakness and wasting, tightness of heel tendons, weakness of joints, respiratory problems, learning difficulty in about one third of cases. The disease occurs only in boys. X-linked inheritance.
A genetic disorder in which muscle cells break down, and are eventually lost, causing progressive muscle weakness. The condition usually affetcs only boys and is caused by a lack of dystrophin protein. search for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
the most common of several childhood muscular dystrophies, it is an inherited disorder (X-linked recessive) with progressive degeneration of muscle, onset is generally before age 6 years
A genetic condition in boys in which nerves degenerate and muscles get progressively weaker.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a gene-related disorder that affects muscle control.
an inherited type of muscular dystrophy characterised by rapid muscle weakness starting in the legs and pelvis.
A genetic disease that prevents muscles from developing properly in early childhood and may be crippling. Primarily affecting males, it is caused by a mutant gene on the X chromosome.
A lethal muscle disease in humans caused by mutation in a huge gene that encodes the muscle protein dystrophin; inherited as an X-linked recessive phenotype.
(DMD) A genetic disease that prevents muscles from developing properly in early childhood and may be crippling.
An x-linked hereditary disease characterized by the absence of a protein known as dystrophin which causes degeneration and necrosis of skeletal muscle fibres. The incidence of this disorder is about 1 in 3500 male births and of these a third are estimated to be new mutational events.
A genetic disorder, which causes progressive muscle weakness as the muscle cells break down and are eventually lost. Usually it affects only boys and is caused by a lack of dystrophin protein.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) (also known as muscular dystrophy - Duchenne type) is an inherited disorder characterized by rapidly progressive muscle weakness which starts in the legs and pelvis and later affects the whole body. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. It usually affects only males, but in rare cases it can also affect females.
