Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

What is Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy?
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a condition that chiefly affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles) and heart (cardiac) muscle.

Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy: Like other muscular dystrophies it is a wasting disease of muscle. It usually begins in childhood or adolescence.

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Emery-Dreifuss MD starts in childhood or adolescence. It can affect the muscles of the shoulders and upper arms, making it difficult to lift heavy objects.

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
This form of muscular dystrophy usually begins in the muscles of the:
Shoulders
Upper arms
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Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare, often slowly progressive genetic disorder affecting the muscles of the arms, legs, face, neck, spine and heart.

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD), also known as humeroperoneal muscular dystrophy, can be caused by a number of inheritance patterns. It can affect both boys and girls.

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy type 2,
Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 1B,
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder type 2B1,
The Dunnigan type of familial partial lipodystrophy,
Mandibuloacral dysplasia and
A familial form of dilated cardiomyopathy.

The cardiac problems that occur with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and myotonic muscular dystrophy may require a pacemaker.

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Becker's muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
Myotonia congenita
Myotonic dystrophy
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(Also Called 'Becker Muscular Dystrophy', 'Congenital Muscular Dystrophy', 'Distal Muscular Dystrophy', 'Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy', 'Emery-dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy', 'Facioscapular Muscular Dystrophy', 'Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy', ...

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD)
Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD)
Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD)
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD)
Myotonic muscular dystrophy
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy ...

Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (type of Congenital conditions)
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy
Distal Muscular Dystrophy
Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy
Myotonic Dystrophy ...

See also: Muscular dystrophy, Dystrophy, Symptom, Weakness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy