Effect of vitamin D on Becker muscular dystrophy: A review

Valley sign in Becker muscular dystrophy and outliers of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.

Valley sign has been described in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). As there are genetic and clinical similarities between DMD and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), this clinical sign is evaluated in this study in BMD and DMD/BMD outliers. To evaluate the sign, 28 patients with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), 8 DMD/BMD outliers and 44 age-matched male controls with other neuromus...

Unusual inheritance of Becker type muscular dystrophy.

A family with Becker type muscular dystrophy is described, in which two females were severely affected, giving the family tree the appearance of dominant inheritance.

Improved diagnosis of Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy.

Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Test

The Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Test provides a high quality read-out of all exons of DMD gene. Our OS-SeqTM technology provides high coverage clinical grade sequencing and enables reliable diagnostics for patients with significantly lower costs and faster turnaround time (basic service TAT 21 days and Express service TAT 7-10 days). The Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Test ha...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy in becker muscular dystrophy.

A 44-year-old male patient with known Becker muscular dystrophy and concomitant non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy presented to our department because of worsening heart failure and presyncope. Upon admission, the patient was in New York Heart Association functional class III despite optimal pharmacological treatment; his ECG showed sinus rhythm with left bundle branch block and a wide QRS com...