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An update on Becker muscular dystrophy. [PDF]

Curr Opin Neurol, 2023
Purpose of review The purpose of this review is to summarise the recent developments in trial readiness, natural history studies, and interventional clinical trials for Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). Recent findings As several treatment concepts have claimed to convert patients ...
Straub V, Guglieri M.
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Patients With Becker Muscular Dystrophy Have Severe Paraspinal Muscle Involvement

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Introduction: Paraspinal muscles are important for gross motor functions. Impairment of these muscles can lead to poor postural control and ambulation difficulty.
Aisha M. Sheikh, Karen Rudolf, Josefine de Stricker Borch, Tahmina Khawajazada, Nanna Witting, John Vissing   +5 more
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Circulating Biomarkers in Muscular Dystrophies: Disease and Therapy Monitoring

Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2020
Muscular dystrophies are a group of inherited disorders that primarily affect the muscle tissues. Across the muscular dystrophies, symptoms commonly compromise the quality of life in all areas of functioning.
Andrie Koutsoulidou, Leonidas A. Phylactou   +1 more
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A rare case of dystrophinopathy: Duchenne muscular dystrophy–Becker muscular dystrophy intermediate complex

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research, 2022
An 18-year-old boy with no significant perinatal history presented with insidious onset of slowly progressive flaccid paraparesis with muscle wasting in thighs.
Rachna Gulati, Tathagata Bose, Neena Katoch, Manish S Ahuja, Subhendu Pandit   +4 more
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Rimmed vacuoles in Becker muscular dystrophy have similar features with inclusion myopathies.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Rimmed vacuoles in myofibers are thought to be due to the accumulation of autophagic vacuoles, and can be characteristic in certain myopathies with protein inclusions in myofibers.
Kazunari Momma, Satoru Noguchi, May Christine V Malicdan, Yukiko K Hayashi, Narihiro Minami, Keiko Kamakura, Ikuya Nonaka, Ichizo Nishino   +7 more
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Deletion of Dystrophin In-Frame Exon 5 Leads to a Severe Phenotype: Guidance for Exon Skipping Strategies. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy severity depends upon the nature and location of the DMD gene lesion and generally correlates with the dystrophin open reading frame.
Zhi Yon Charles Toh, May Thandar Aung-Htut, Gavin Pinniger, Abbie M Adams, Sudarsan Krishnaswarmy, Brenda L Wong, Sue Fletcher, Steve D Wilton   +7 more
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Orthodontic treatment in a patient with unilateral open-bite and Becker muscular dystrophy. A 5-year follow-up

Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Becker muscular dystrophy is an X-chromosomal linked anomaly characterized by progressive muscle wear and weakness. This case report shows the orthodontic treatment of a Becker muscular dystrophy patient with unilateral open bite.METHODS ...
Juan Fernando Aristizabal, Rosana Martínez Smit   +1 more
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Cardiac involvement in becker muscular dystrophy

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1993
The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of myocardial involvement and the relation of cardiac disease to the molecular defect at the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or protein level in Becker muscular dystrophy.Dystrophin gene mutations produce clinical manifestations of disease in the heart and skeletal muscle of patients with Becker ...
MELACINI, PAOLA, FANIN, MARINA, DANIELI, GIAN ANTONIO, FASOLI, GIUSEPPE, Villanova C, ANGELINI, CORRADO, VITIELLO, LIBERO, Miorelli M, BUJA, GIANFRANCO, MOSTACCIUOLO, MARIA LUISA, PEGORARO, ELENA, DALLA VOLTA, SERGIO   +11 more
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Palliative care services in families of males with muscular dystrophy: Data from MD STARnet

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Information on use of palliative care services among individuals with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy is scant despite the clearly documented need.
Jennifer G Andrews, Shree Pandya, Christina Trout, Treeva Jaff, Dennis Matthews, Christopher Cunniff, F John Meaney   +6 more
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Becker muscular dystrophy with dilated cardiomyopathy: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) complicated with DCM is rare in our daily clinical practice. BMD serves an etiology for heart failure patients due to DCM. Multidisciplinary management is required in this case.
Yongliang Chen, Yunlong Zhu, Yuying Zhou, Jianping Zeng   +3 more
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