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Meanings of myotonic muscular dystrophy in English

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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Usage of myotonic muscular dystrophy in English
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Current noninvasive surrogates of cardiac involvement in myotonic muscular dystrophy have low positive predictive value for sudden death.
Pubmed
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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.
Pubmed
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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