Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
Onset: Childhood to middle age.
Symptoms: Weakness and wasting affecting shoulder and pelvic girdles first.
Progression: Usually progresses slowly with cardiopulmonary complications often
occurring in later stages of the disease.
Inheritance: Multiple different forms of inheritance
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Onset: Childhood to early adulthood.
Symptoms: Facial muscle weakness, with weakness and wasting of the shoulders
and upper arms.
Progression: Progresses slowly
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant.
Types of Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Myotonic Dystrophy
Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular
Atrophy (Also known as SMA Type 1, Werdnig-Hoffman)
Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Also
known as SMA Type 3, Kugelberg-Welander)
Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA) (Also
known as Kennedy's Disease and X-Linked SBMA)
Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
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