The bare essentials: muscle disease.
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Correspondence to: Professor M G Hanna, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; [email protected] Muscle diseases impair mobility and frequently have cardiorespiratory complications. Their age of onset is extremely wide; patients may die young, or there may be lifelong motor disability with cardiorespiratory complications, or late onset muscle weakness. About 50 000 people in the UK population of 60.5 million have one of the diverse group of genetic and acquired conditions which make up the primary muscle diseases; many more have muscle symptoms due to drugs or systemic diseases such as cancer. The important acquired muscle diseases include the inflammatory myopathies which are treatable and so the diagnosis must not be missed (or overdiagnosed and some other disorder treated inappropriately), as well as the drug-induced myopathies. Neurologists are also often asked to assess patients with secondary muscle dysfunction due to aging, immobility, critical illness and cancer.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Practical neurology
دوره 9 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009