- See:
myopathic disorders:
- Discussion:
- congenital myopathies are a group of different conditions, w/ variable
genetic patterns of inheritance, that lead to muscle weakness in
infancy and early childhood;
- include central core disease, nemaline myopathy, myotubular myopathy,
congenital fiber type disproportion, and centronuclear myopathy;
- children w/ congenital myopathies present as "floppy" babies in whom
weakness leads to failure to achieve normal motor milestones;
- generally they improve with age, but children are never athletically
adept, and they may deteriorate and die of respiratory failure;
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Current Concepts Review.
The Diagnosis and Orthopaedic Treatment of
Inherited Muscular Diseases of Childhood.
