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 ...

A previous needle electromyogram had confirmed the presence of myotonia, but a muscle biopsy had revealed no evidence of dystrophy. Investigations Neurological examination, electrophysiological ...

Columnist Patrick Moeschen was given an incorrect diagnosis of Becker muscular dystrophy, years before learning he actually ...

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 ...

The rate of progression of the muscular dystrophies depends on the type of dystrophy. While some progress slowly, others confine the patient to a wheelchair within a few years. Significant advances in ...

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 ...

Dyne Therapeutics' DYNE-101 shows promising Phase 1/2 results for myotonic dystrophy type 1, with plans for Accelerated ...

There are monthly Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), MG ... In addition to surgical specimens obtained in our lab, fresh and frozen biopsy tissue is received for processing and interpretation from ...

A groundbreaking study has shed light on the complex interactions between dystrophin, a protein critical to muscle stability, and its partner protein, dystrobrevin, offering new pathways for ...

(RTTNews) - Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. (DYN) Friday announced encouraging data from its ongoing Phase 1/2 ACHIEVE trial of DYNE-101 in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). Myotonic dystrophy ...