It causes further weakness and produces an appearance of thinning muscles. The increased muscle tone of myotonic muscular dystrophy is described as myotonia, and it manifests as a prolonged ...
A previous needle electromyogram had confirmed the presence of myotonia, but a muscle biopsy had revealed no evidence of dystrophy. Investigations Neurological examination, electrophysiological ...
In recent years, a growing understanding of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1)—an often fatal, devastating, rare neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and other life-limiting ...