Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a disease that affects certain muscles. Individuals with CMD may experience symptoms such as muscle weakness and joint problems. “Congenital” means present since ...
In boys with DMD, executive skills such as self-control begin to lag around age 8, but show signs of partial catch-up by 14, ...
These are the year's top 10 most-read muscular dystrophy news stories we published last year, each with a brief description.
An experimental RNA therapy from Avidity Biosciences has early clinical trial results showing it reduced by half the expression of a gene at the root of a rare, inherited form of muscular dystrophy ...
Decreased strain and rotation were hypothesized to be associated with the presence and extent of left ventricular myocardial fibrosis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Investigators recently ...
HOUSTON – There’s a new type of therapy that can help kids with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects one in 3,600 male births, and it can lead to immobility, and ...
Delandistrogene moxeparvovec, a gene therapy approved for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), was found tolerable and showed signs of efficacy in a real-world cohort. Delandistrogene ...
Cardiac complications in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are the result of cardiac muscle involvement that accompanies the deterioration of skeletal muscle in the disease. The use of ...
Artificial intelligence (AI)–based electrocardiogram interpretation (AI-ECG) detected left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in patients with muscular dystrophy, a recent study found. Routine ...