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Neuromuscular diseases of childhood

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1993
This review covers three areas. First, dramatic progress in the discovery of abnormal loci on certain chromosomes associated with several motor unit diseases eventually will obviate the need for more invasive testing. Second, new information about the natural course of spinal muscular atrophy is beginning to clarify the nature of this disease.
B S, Russman, R C, Schwartz
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Neuromuscular disease and the pulmonologist

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2012
The heterogeneous nature of neuromuscular disorders (NMDs) continues to promote slow but steady advances in diagnosis, classification, and treatment. This review focuses on the updates in the general management and treatment of NMDs, with emphasis on key updates in muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, mitochondrial myopathy, spinal muscular atrophy,
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Hereditary neuromuscular diseases

European Journal of Radiology, 2001
This article presents the actual classification of neuromuscular diseases based on present expansion of our knowledge and understanding due to genetic developments. It summarizes the genetic and clinical presentations of each disorder together with CT findings, which we studied in a large group of patients with neuromuscular diseases.
Özsarlak, Ö., Schepens, E., Parizel, P.M., Van Goethem, J.W., Vanhoenacker, F., de Schepper, A.M., Martin, J.-J.   +6 more
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The Epidemiology of Neuromuscular Diseases

Neurologic Clinics, 2016
Neuromuscular disorders as a group are linked by anatomy with significant differences in pathogenetic mechanisms, clinical expression, and time course of disease. Each neuromuscular disease is relatively uncommon, yet causes a significant burden of disease socioeconomically.
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Neuromuscular disease and anesthesia

Muscle & Nerve, 2013
ABSTRACTPatients with neuromuscular disease pose many anesthetic challenges and are at greater risk for perioperative complications, including respiratory or cardiovascular dysfunction and pulmonary aspiration. Therefore, these patients require special precautions, including interdisciplinary communication between primary care physicians, neurologists,
Alan, Romero, Girish P, Joshi
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Neuromuscular Diseases of the Newborn

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 2019
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is composed of motor neurons, nerve roots, plexuses, peripheral nerves (motor, sensory and autonomic), neuromuscular junction, and skeletal muscles. Disorders of the PNS in neonates most frequently cause weakness, hypotonia, and contractures, which may be generalized or focal. Since these findings may also occur with
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Neuromuscular Diseases

, 2019
A wide range of neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) may result in dysfunction of the ventilatory pump and consequently lead to complications such as respiratory failure, sleep disorder, aspiration pneumonia and death.
Fabrizio Racca, Brunella Gily
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Dynamics of Neuromuscular Diseases

Archives of Neurology, 1959
For the past 30 odd years, electromyography has been used to aid in the understanding and investigation of abnormal function or of dysfunction of the lower motor neuron, more specifically of the motor unit. During the latter part of this period, clinical electromyography has been developed specifically to understand the abnormality of dysfunction of ...
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ELECTRODIAGNOSIS OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

Pediatrics, 1964
THE past decade has seen a number of the techniques of clinical neurophysiology come into common use in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease. One of these is the measurement of conduction velocity of motor nerves. Conduction velocity of nerves was only of academic interest until 1948 when a simple method for making reliable measurements in man was ...
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Neuromuscular Disease A Case-Based Approach

2013
There are over 600 neuromuscular disorders and the variability of these syndromes can leave clinicians feeling as if they are lost in a maze as they seek to diagnose and manage patients. This book addresses this problem by using the case-history and symptom manifestation as a starting point for the diagnostic process in adult patients, mimicking the ...
Wokke, JHJ, van Doorn, Pieter, Hoogendijk, JE, Visser, Monique   +3 more
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