Myotonic Dystrophy: Severity and Maternal Age

Myotonic dystrophy

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist. This book is of unusual interest. It is not a history of cardiology in Belfast in the last forty years, though that is touched on in some of its aspects. It is the self-revelation of the remarkable man and physician who revolutionised the practice of cardiology in Belfast, in Ulster, and ultimately the world. He may not have meant it, bu...

Age and causes of death in adult-onset myotonic dystrophy.

Myotonic dystrophy is a relatively common type of muscular dystrophy, associated with a variety of systemic complications. Long term follow-up is difficult because of the slow progression. The objective of this study was to determine survival, age at death and causes of death in patients with the adult-onset type of myotonic dystrophy. A register of myotonic dystrophy patients was set up in Sou...

myotonic dystrophy

SYNOPSIS A case of myotonic dystrophy accompanied by alveolar hypoventilation and hypersomnia is presented. Radiological studies and EMG examination of the intercostal muscles demonstrated that the respiratory muscles were affected by the disease, while polygraphic recordings showed that the alveolar hypoventilation and pulmonary hypertension worsened during sleep. The hypersomnia preceded the ...

Myotonic dystrophy and pregnancy.

Myotonic dystrophy is the most common neuromuscular disease in adults with a prevalence of 2.4-5.5 per 100,000. Here we describe two cases of DM and discuss their obstetric complications. Our first case concerns a 39 year old multipara whose pregnancies were complicated by recurrent abdominal pain, polyhydramnios and post partum haemorrhage which was attributed to DM. In our second case we disc...

Myotonic dystrophy and thymoma.