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Kai Shepard's parents celebrate his recovery after a new treatment for his rare myopathy diagnosis at Banner Thunderbird ...

Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and critical illness myopathy (CIM) are major complications that occur in severely ill patients who require intensive care treatment. CIP and CIM affect the ...

Miyoshi distal dystrophy is a rare myopathy characterized by an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance and it is prevalent in Japan. Onset of disease is in early adult life with weakness and ...

Hereditary myopathy with lactic acidosis due to Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Enzyme (ISCU) deficiency is a rare disorder of energy metabolism characterized clinically by myopathy with exercise ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of conditions characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis) and other body systems. Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are subtypes of IIM ...

FOXK2 was identified as a novel pathogenic gene for congenital myopathy associated with ptosis and was shown to play a previously unreported, significant role in skeletal muscle development. These ...

2 To the best of our knowledge, an isolated late onset distal myopathy has never been described in association with multiple mtDNA deletions, and high densities of TA have not previously been ...

Imaging of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis showed no evidence of malignancy, and a transthoracic echocardiogram was unremarkable. Electromyography (EMG) was consistent with diffuse myopathy. The ...

It’s been an intense year for 1-year-old Kai Shepard, living with myopathy. “…in and out of the hospital since he was like three months old,” said Vanessa Villanueva, Kai’s mom.

Two months later, cholesterol was 171 mg/dL, CK was 72 U/L and there was no muscle pain. This case supports the view that creatine may prevent statin-induced myopathy. Management of statin-induced ...