Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive, progressive and universally fatal disease in the spectrum of dystrophinopathies,1Â with an incidence of 21.4 patients in 100,000 live male births worldwide.2,3 Historically, patients with DMD would lose ambulation by the age of 10 due ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive, X-linked recessive neuromuscular disorder, characterized by muscle weakness, wasting, and degeneration starting in early childhood.1,2 DMD is caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene that leads to an absence of functional dystrophin ...
These are exciting times in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD); the first disease-modifying drug for this indication has been approved in the European Union for ambulatory DMD in patients >5 years; other drug treatments are in the pipeline.1–5 These treatments can ...
Welcome to the latest edition of US Neurology, which features a wide range of topical articles covering numerous areas of neurology that are of interest to the wider biomedical community. In this edition, we discuss treatment of Duchene Muscular Dystrophy (...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked disorder affecting one in 5,000 live male births which makes it the most common and most severe form of muscular dystrophy.1 The absence of the protein dystrophin leads to symptom onset typically between the ...
Report based on Presentations at a Satellite Symposium held at the European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS) on 25 September 2013 in Brussels, Belgium At the European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS) conference held in Brussels during September 2013, a satellite symposium sponsored by PTC ...
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