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Muscular Dystrophy is a term used to designate a group of hereditary
muscle-destroying disorders which vary in inheritance pattern, age
of onset, initial muscles attacked and rate of progression.
The following is a list of muscular dystrophy
diseases
that specifically affect children:
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
- Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
- Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy
- Limb- Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
- Fascioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
- Myotoninc Dystrophy
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1
- Intermediate Spinal Atrophy Type 2
- Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3
- Dermatomytositis
- Polymyositis
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome
- Friedreich's Ataxia
- Hyperthyroid Myopathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Dejerine-Sottas Disease
- Myotonia Congenita Central Core Disease
- Nemaline Myopathy
- Myotubular Myopathy
- Phosphorylase Deficiency
- Acid Maltase Deficiency
- Phosphofructokinase Deficiency
- Debrancher Enzyme Deficiency
- Mitochondrial Myopathy
- Carnitine Deficiency
- Phosphoglycerate Kinase Deficiency
- Lactate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
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