myotonia in English
Myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, affects the eyes, heart, hormonal systems, and blood, in addition to causing muscular dystrophy and involuntary muscle stiffness ( myotonia ).
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1. Description of a method facilitating an early differential diagnosis between myotonia congenita and myotonia dystrophica.
2. Both suffered from subclinical recessive myotonia congenita (Becker).
3. Myotonia congenita and myotonic dystrophy were not aggravated by cooling.
4. They permit the differentiation between the two forms of Myotonia congenita.
5. Reflex muscle activity may be measured at the joint, as in myotonia congenita and Parkinsonism.
6. Results: In myotonia congenita discharge trains of short duration, i.e. 1 sec or less, are predominant.
7. By comparing biopsies of autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive myotonia congenita, paramyotonia congenita, paramyotonia congenita, adynamia episodica hereditaria with myotonia, and myotonic dystrophy by light and electron microscopy, various alterations were observed, most of which however were non-specific.
8. The clinical and electromyographical symptoms are very similar to those of myotonia congenita in man and goats.
9. We recorded myotonic discharges electromyographically in 5 patients with myotonia congenita and in 8 others with myotonic dystrophy.
10. Clinical observation, however, discloses that the muscle stiffness in myotonia congenita is frequently accompanied by a transient paresis.
11. Tubules forming complexes with filaments were seen in autosomal dominant myotonia congenita (type IIa), and in adynamia episodica hereditaria (type IIb, “giant tubules”).
12. Animal experiments demonstrated that uracil and uridine were capabie of lowering the elevated serum aldolase level of mice suffering from experimental myotonia.