Genetic tests to find out why led to discovery I had rare cancer' Cavents was eventually diagnosed with distal myopathy ...

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 ...

This may in part be due to limited availability of diagnostic tests for titin defects. In this report, a French family with an autosomal-dominant late-onset distal myopathy of the tibial muscular ...

Myopathy refers to diseases of skeletal muscles (muscles connected to bone). The condition can be acute (meaning sudden, severe, and short-lasting) or chronic (persistent, recurrent, and often ...

Rimmed vacuoles are consistently seen in all other distal myopathies with the exception of Myoshi distal myopathy. However, they were found in a minority of patients with MPD1, and were not prominent ...

OMT-28 is under clinical development by OMEICOS Therapeutics and currently in Phase II for Mitochondrial Myopathy. According to GlobalData, Phase II drugs for Mitochondrial Myopathy does not have ...

.In order to treat an underserved population of patients with a rare condition whose muscles gradually become weaker until they can no longer walk, a team of researchers across Japan have completed a ...

A clinical trial has led to the approval of a treatment for patients with a rare, muscle-weakening disease called GNE myopathy. In order to treat an underserved population of patients with a rare ...

Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles, or GNE myopathy, is a very rare disease in which muscle atrophy and degeneration occurs in the distal limbs (such as fingers and ankles). Symptoms typically ...

Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles, or GNE myopathy, is a very rare disease in which muscle atrophy and degeneration occurs in the distal limbs (such as fingers and ankles). Symptoms typically ...

Distal muscular dystrophy (DD), also called distal myopathy, is not one disorder, but a group of genetic disorders under the larger umbrella of muscular dystrophy. DD is marked by progressive weakness ...

A drug to treat distal myopathy — a rare disorder characterized by progressive weakness of the distal muscles of the hands and feet, with patients losing the ability to walk in roughly 10 years ...