dystrophies in English

noun
1
a disorder in which an organ or tissue of the body wastes away.
Fuchs' dystrophy is an inherited disease that affects the cornea - the transparent front surface of your eye.
2
impaired nourishment of a bodily part.
Soft tissue dystrophy continues, and the skin is cool, ischemic, dry, thin, and shiny.
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1. Methods and compositions for muscular dystrophies

2. Epidemiology Leber congenital Amaurosis (LCA) is the second most common group of inherited retinal dystrophies after retinitis pigmentosa, accounting for about 5% of all retinal dystrophies

3. Other main diagnoses were tapetoretinal dystrophies, optic atrophy, and diabetic retinopathy.

4. The invention relates to Drosophila transgenic animal models for myotonic dystrophies.

5. FAF of both wavelengths provided additional information for phenotype description in retinal dystrophies.

6. Nuclear envelopathies are heterogeneous group of diseases, ranging from muscle and lipid dystrophies to progeria.

7. The invention provides method for the prevention and treatment of ocular disease including infection, neoplasia, and corneal dystrophies.

8. Cutoff filters may improve contrast sensitivity in different retinal dystrophies and therefore lead to improved visual function.

9. In patients aged 40 year and older, pattern dystrophies and central areolar choroidal dystrophy were more frequent.

10. As a result of a genetic mutation on the X chromosome, dystrophies affect young or adolescent boys.

11. Cone and cone-rod dystrophies belong to the genetically and phenotypically very heterogeneous group of retinal degenerations.

12. This review article presents the actual value of CT in malformations, traumatic injuries, inflammations, tumors and bone dystrophies.

13. It develops after birth in poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, hereditary neuropathies and muscular dystrophies or before birth in spina bifida, spinal agenesis and arthrogryposis.

14. In particular, the invention proposes tools for the treatment of atrophies of any aetiology, such as muscular dystrophies, cachexia, and atrophy related to malnutrition or to immobilization.

15. The Cone dystrophies can cause a variety of symptoms such as decreased visual clarity when looking straight ahead, a reduced ability to see colors, and an increased sensitivity to light.

16. A genetic examination is very helpful to distinguish achromatopsia from other stationary cone disorders like X-linked recessive blue cone monochromatism and from progressive cone and cone-rod dystrophies.

17. While the primary abnormality would appear to be an abiotrophy of the lens epithelium, analogous to other dystrophies in the eye, the chief pathologic manifestation is seen in aberrant proliferation of the capsule.

18. Conclusion: Differential diagnosis includes all diseases associated with congenital nystagm, such as aniridia, diseases of the optic nerve, albinism and all forms of hereditary cone dysfunction, cone dystrophies and complete and incomplete congenital stationary monochromatism.