Muscular Dystrophy

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Test:

Muscle biopsy (AB), intrauterine chorionic villassampling. (AB), U.creatinine (H), S.CPK (H), S.AST (H), S.aldolase (H), electromyelography (AB)

Sign:

Peripheral reflexes, muscular atrophy, claw hand,fasciculation, hypotonia, flaccid paralysis, wad­dling gait, wrist drop, "Gower's manoeuvre

Dd:

Orthopaedic anomalies, neurogenic diseases, polio, cretinism, gonadal disorders, Charcot-Ma­rie-Tooth disease, polyneuritis

Phys:

Inherited myopathies characterised by progres­sive, severe, muscular weakness. Many differeht subgroups