Muscular dystrophy of the belts

The muscular dystrophies of the belts includes a group of diseases neuromusculaires which affect primarily the voluntary muscles located around the area scapular (shoulders) and of the pelvic area (hips). The various muscular dystrophies are different according to:

the old one of occurred
Of the clinical demonstrations being able to reach the heart
genetic criteria
Of the modes of transmission

Current classification is based on the genetic analysis and of proteins in question.

Classification

Incidence

Description

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Myopathy of Duchenne
Dystrophy facio scapulo humérale
Myopathy of Bethlem
Certain types of congenital muscular Dystrophies
distal Myopathy of type Miyoshi
muscular Dystrophy of Emery-Dreifuss

Sources

Site in French of information on the orphan rare diseases and drugs
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MANDELEVIUM

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