Living with severe physical impairment, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and home mechanical ventilation

Living with severe physical impairment, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and home mechanical ventilation

AIM To study life-experiences of people living with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD), home mechanical ventilation (HMV) and physical impairment. BACKGROUND Since the introduction of invasive HMV in the late 1980s people with DMD in Denmark live longer and have the experience of adulthood and a high degree of physical dependency. METHOD Nineteen patients with DMD and invasive HMV were int...

Independent living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and home mechanical ventilation in areas of Japan with insufficient national welfare services

In Japan, there is no national 24-hour home care system for people with severe impairments. Despite this fact, a small number of people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy on home mechanical ventilation pursue independent living. Therefore, our aim was to better understand the process by which these individuals arrived at this goal for independence (i.e., choosing to live at home in Japan instead ...

Comparison Between Courses of Home and Inpatients Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Muscular Dystrophy in Japan

Intellectual Impairment in Muscular Dystrophy.

The association of intellectual retardation with childhood muscular dystrophy was noted many years ago. Duchenne (1872) thought that 5 of his 13 cases were retarded. Gowers (1879). on the other hand, found evidence of mental retardation in only 2 of his 24 patients, and he thought that it was not a feature of the muscle disease but that there was probably a higher incidence of muscular dystroph...

Severe Muscular Dystrophy in Girls.

Twelve girls and 2 boys with severe but not congenital muscular dystrophy were found in a national survey. An autosomal recessive gene is likely to account for most if not all of these cases. The condition differs slightly from X-linked Duchenne muscular dystrophy in showing prominent early toe-walking, a milder course, relatively more weakness of the deltoid muscles, normal intelligence, a nor...