Certain muscular dystrophies are also known to affect organs other than skeletal muscle, including the heart. The rate of progression of the muscular dystrophies depends on the type of dystrophy.

Muscular dystrophy is diagnosed using several tests. These may include: Muscle biopsy. A small piece of muscle tissue is removed and examined to confirm the diagnosis or rule out another muscle ...

There are several types of muscular dystrophy. Muscle weakness is a hallmark of each type. But the symptoms can vary and start at different ages. Some muscular dystrophies are mild. Others are ...

A muscle biopsy is not diagnostic of myotonic muscular dystrophy because it is expected to show muscle fiber degeneration, which is common with many types of myopathies (muscle diseases ...

Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

This is a cross section of a muscle biopsy: Blood vessels (red) between the muscle fibers and laminin-α2 (green), which surrounds each muscle fiber. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint institution of the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, have developed a promising gene-editing ...

There are monthly Muscular Dystrophy Association ... and spasmodic dysphonia. In our Muscle/Nerve Histopathology Laboratory, over 600 muscle and nerve biopsies are performed and/or interpreted ...