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An integrated diagnosis strategy for congenital myopathies. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Congenital myopathies are severe muscle disorders affecting adults as well as children in all populations. The diagnosis of congenital myopathies is constrained by strong clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Moreover, the majority of patients present with
Johann Böhm, Nasim Vasli, Edoardo Malfatti, Stéphanie Le Gras, Claire Feger, Bernard Jost, Nicole Monnier, Julie Brocard, Hatice Karasoy, Marion Gérard, Maggie C Walter, Peter Reilich, Valérie Biancalana, Christine Kretz, Nadia Messaddeq, Isabelle Marty, Joël Lunardi, Norma B Romero, Jocelyn Laporte   +18 more
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Congenital myopathies: A clinicopathological study of 25 cases

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2008
Objective: Congenital myopathies are rare. Through this article, the authors want to present a clinicopathological analysis of 25 new cases. Materials and methods: The clinical data of patients who were diagnosed with congenital myopathy between 2001 ...
Jain Deepali, Sharma Mehar, Sarkar Chitra, Gulati Shefali, Kalra Veena, Singh Sumit, Bhatia Rohit   +6 more
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Clinical validity of congenital myopathy genes determined by the ClinGen Congenital Myopathies Expert Panel. [PDF]

J Neuromuscul Dis
Background: Congenital myopathies are a group of neuromuscular disorders that typically present at birth or early childhood with hypotonia and non-progressive or slowly progressive muscle weakness.
Ross JE, Flowers M, McNulty S, Patel M, Yang H, Palus B, Abdelmoneim Elnagheeb M, Eng L, Owens E, Beggs AH, Bertini E, D'Amico A, Donkervoort S, Dowling J, Fattori F, Ferreiro A, Genetti CA, Gonorazky H, Lek M, Lindy A, Medne L, Muntoni F, Pajusalu S, Pelin K, Rendu J, Sarkozy A, Vatta M, Winder T, Yoon G, Bönnemann CG, Ceyhan-Birsoy O.   +30 more
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Making sense of missense variants in TTN-related congenital myopathies. [PDF]

Acta Neuropathol, 2021
Mutations in the sarcomeric protein titin, encoded by TTN, are emerging as a common cause of myopathies. The diagnosis of a TTN-related myopathy is, however, often not straightforward due to clinico-pathological overlap with other myopathies and the ...
Rees M, Nikoopour R, Fukuzawa A, Kho AL, Fernandez-Garcia MA, Wraige E, Bodi I, Deshpande C, Özdemir Ö, Daimagüler HS, Pfuhl M, Holt M, Brandmeier B, Grover S, Fluss J, Longman C, Farrugia ME, Matthews E, Hanna M, Muntoni F, Sarkozy A, Phadke R, Quinlivan R, Oates EC, Schröder R, Thiel C, Reimann J, Voermans N, Erasmus C, Kamsteeg EJ, Konersman C, Grosmann C, McKee S, Tirupathi S, Moore SA, Wilichowski E, Hobbiebrunken E, Dekomien G, Richard I, Van den Bergh P, Domínguez-González C, Cirak S, Ferreiro A, Jungbluth H, Gautel M.   +44 more
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Clinical Characteristics and Neurologic Outcomes of X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy [PDF]

Annals of Child Neurology, 2022
Purpose X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a rare condition of centronuclear myopathy caused by myotubularin 1 (MTM1) mutations. Patients with XLMTM show different neurodevelopmental outcomes after the neonatal period depending on age and acquired ...
Hyewon Woo, Seungbok Lee, Ji Yeon Han, Woo Joong Kim, Man Jin Kim, Moon-Woo Seong, Soo Yeon Kim, Anna Cho, Byung Chan Lim, Ki Joong Kim, Jong-Hee Chae   +10 more
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Congenital myopathies: The current status

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2022
Within the history of neuromuscular diseases (NMD), congenital myopathies (CM) represent a relatively new category introduced in the mid-nineteen hundreds upon advent and subsequent application of enzyme histochemistry and electron microscopy by ...
Hans H Goebel, Carsten Dittmayer, Werner Stenzel   +2 more
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Improvement of muscle strength in a mouse model for congenital myopathy treated with HDAC and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors

eLife, 2022
To date there are no therapies for patients with congenital myopathies, muscle disorders causing poor quality of life of affected individuals. In approximately 30% of the cases, patients with congenital myopathies carry either dominant or recessive ...
Alexis Ruiz, Sofia Benucci, Urs Duthaler, Christoph Bachmann, Martina Franchini, Faiza Noreen, Laura Pietrangelo, Feliciano Protasi, Susan Treves, Francesco Zorzato   +9 more
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Profound Hypotonia and Respiratory Failure due to Suspected Nemaline Myopathy in a Preterm Infant

American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2021
Congenital myopathies, such as nemaline myopathy, may present with hypotonia and respiratory failure in the neonatal period. Respiratory function can be further compromised in affected infants by the development of chylous effusions.
Gloria Akuamoah-Boateng, Raymond C. Stetson, Bethany D. Kaemingk, David A. Bieber, Jane E. Brumbaugh   +4 more
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Miopatías congénitas

Revista Médica Clínica Las Condes, 2018
: Congenital myopathies are a group of primary hereditary, clinically and genetically heterogeneous skeletal muscle disorders, defined according to histopathologic lesions observed in muscle biopsies.
Edoardo Malfatti, MD, PhD
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KLHL40 mutation associated with severe nemaline myopathy, fetal akinesia, and cleft palate

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2019
The congenital myopathies are a heterogeneous group of inherited neuromuscular disorders characterized by early-onset muscular weakness, hypotonia, and developmental delay.
Kapil K Avasthi, Sarita Agarwal, Inusha Panigrahi   +2 more
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