Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

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Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

• By Brian Tong

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Overview
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• Facial muscle weakness
• Eyelid drooping
• Inability to whistle
• Difficulty pronouncing words
• Shoulder weakness
• Difficulty working with the arms raised
• Sloping shoulders
• Hearing loss
• Abnormal heart rhythm

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Heredity

• the third most common inherited disease of muscle
  dystrophy
• affects 5 out of 100,000 people
• chances of passing on to offspring is a 50
  chances

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Medical

• a test for a tiny missing section of DNA on
  chromosome 4
• type of diagnostic test is the electromyogram
• Put a very fine needles short way into the
  muscles
• measures the electrical activity in the muscles.
• Shoulder Weakness
• Facial Weakness
• Lower Leg Weakness
• Normal life span
• Surgical and Mechanical Help
• Exercise
• Diet

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Personal

• Most people are usually in wheelchairs
• Always getting help
• Eyelid drooping
• Inability to whistle
• angry facial expression
• Difficulty pronouncing words
• Difficulty working with the arms raised
• Sloping shoulders
• Pronounced shoulder blades
• Hearing loss
• Abnormal heart rhythm
• are working on other strategies to treat
  Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy

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Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy References

• http//www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/00
  0707.htm
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id
  158900
• http//www.mda.org/publications/fa-fshd.html