Pediatric neuromuscular diseases encompass all disorders with onset in childhood and
where the primary area of pathology is in the peripheral nervous system. These conditions …

Neuromuscular disorders are diagnosed across the lifespan and create many challenges
especially with infants, children and adolescents. This new edition of the definitive reference …

Objective: To delineate optimal diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to congenital
muscular dystrophy (CMD) through a systematic review and analysis of the currently …

Congenital muscular dystrophies are a group of rare neuromuscular disorders with a wide
spectrum of clinical phenotypes. Recent advances in understanding the molecular …

Congenital myopathies comprise a clinical, histopathological, and genetic heterogeneous
group of rare hereditary muscle diseases that are defined by architectural abnormalities in …

Congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous
neuromuscular disorders with onset at birth or in infancy in which the muscle biopsy is …

Abstract Purpose of Review Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited
muscular disorders characterized by progressive muscle weakness and in many cases …

The clinical practice of neuromuscular disease is currently undergoing enormous change as
a direct result of the wealth of recent molecular genetic discoveries. Indeed, the majority of …

With continuous deciphering of the genetic background of congenital muscular dystrophies
and congenital myopathies, some of the historic classifications based on clinical phenotypes …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the commonest inherited neuromuscular disorder of
childhood and mainly affects males. Over the course of the last century, the average life …