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Meanings of myotonic dystrophy in English

Portuguese
doença de steinert
Spanish
distrofia miotonica de steinert
Catalan
distròfia miotònica de steinert
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Long term genetic disorder that affects muscle function.

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doença de steinert

A severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant.

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Examples for "myotonic muscular dystrophy"
Examples for "myotonic muscular dystrophy"
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Current noninvasive surrogates of cardiac involvement in myotonic muscular dystrophy have low positive predictive value for sudden death.
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The SNRV for contrast enhanced cardiac MR images was calculated over the entire left ventricle in 43 patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy.
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Myotonic muscular dystrophy, which affects 40,000 people in the United States alone, is marked by the inability to relax muscles.
Reuters
Usage of myotonic dystrophy in English
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Thornton said people with myotonic dystrophy have all the ingredients for a healthy body.
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Earlier collaboration has also resulted in an experimental drug for myotonic dystrophy that will soon begin development.
Reuters
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Mice injected with a compound that neutralizes faulty gene activity regained the use of muscles frozen by myotonic dystrophy, the researchers said.
Reuters
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We report a rare case of double heterozygous type I protein C deficiency and factor V Leiden in a patient with classic myotonic dystrophy.
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These data indicate that muscle dysfunction is a core feature of SBMA caused by at least some of the same pathogenic mechanisms as myotonic dystrophy.
Pubmed