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Results 1 - 10 of 10 for Muscular "dystrophy," cardiac type
  1. ... be discovered only during medical testing. Rarely, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy affects the heart (cardiac) muscle or muscles needed for breathing.Researchers have described two types of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: type 1 (FSHD1) and ...
  2. ... mutation also have an increased risk of developing heart abnormalities including cardiomyopathy. DBMD Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker types Muscular dystrophy, pseudohypertrophic Genetic Testing Registry: Becker muscular ...
  3. ... palpitations), an unusually slow heartbeat (bradycardia), fainting (syncope), heart failure, and an increased risk of sudden death.Researchers have identified several types of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy that are distinguished by their pattern of inheritance: ...
  4. ... progressive, with mental retardation Muscular dystrophy, congenital, Fukuyama type Muscular dystrophy, congenital, with central nervous system involvement Polymicrogyria with ...
  5. ... its inheritance pattern and genetic cause. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1 includes forms of the disorder that have an inheritance pattern called autosomal dominant. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2 includes forms of the disorder that have ...
  6. ... congenital muscular dystrophies and is sometimes called congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A. Affected infants may have severe muscle weakness, ... F, Stanoiu B, Zavaleanu M. Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A. Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2008;49(2): ...
  7. ... M, Tarnopolsky MA. Dysferlin aggregation in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B/Miyoshi Myopathy necessitates mutational screen for diagnosis [ ...
  8. ... mutations can cause other caveolinopathies including limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, rippling muscle disease, isolated hyperCKemia, and a heart disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Several CAV3 gene mutations ...
  9. ... making a protein that is found in heart (cardiac) muscle and in type I skeletal muscle fibers. Type I fibers, which ... hold the head steady, are made predominantly of type I fibers.In cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, the protein produced from ...
  10. ... the CNBP gene is found primarily in the heart and in skeletal muscles, where it helps regulate the function of other genes.Similar changes in the structure of the DMPK and CNBP genes cause myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2. In each case, a ...