Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy or spinal muscular atrophy: a source of diagnostic confusion?

Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy

Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy

Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy

Association of Limb-Girdle muscular dystrophy with multiple sclerosis: A case report

Background: The association of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) with other neurological disorders is uncommon. Case presentation: We report a 25-year-old female with LGMD who suffered from slowly progressive proximal muscular weakness and atrophy since she was 12 years of age. The patient recently presented with acute loss of left side visual acuity. After evaluation, findings were sugges...

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy: an immunohistochemical diagnostic approach.

The limb-girdle muscle dystrophy (LGMD) represents a heterogeneous group of muscular diseases with dominant and recessive inheritance, individualized by gene mutation. A group of 56 patients, 32 males and 24 females, with suggestive LGMD diagnosis were submitted to clinical evaluation, serum muscle enzymes, electromyography, muscle biopsy, and the immunoidentification (ID) of sarcoglycans (SG) ...