Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy

A 77-year-old male is presented. He had onset of proximal weakness 10 years earlier. His course was slowly progressive. Despite having phenotypic features of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH), genetic testing for this was delayed because of his age of onset, lack of family history, and be...

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Autor principal: Fee, Dominic B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/726984
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description A 77-year-old male is presented. He had onset of proximal weakness 10 years earlier. His course was slowly progressive. Despite having phenotypic features of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH), genetic testing for this was delayed because of his age of onset, lack of family history, and benign appearing muscle biopsy. This case is one of the oldest onset of weakness in genetically confirmed FSH and highlights the recognized expansion in phenotype that has occurred since the advent of genetic testing.
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spelling pubmed-34575972012-09-28 Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Fee, Dominic B. Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report A 77-year-old male is presented. He had onset of proximal weakness 10 years earlier. His course was slowly progressive. Despite having phenotypic features of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH), genetic testing for this was delayed because of his age of onset, lack of family history, and benign appearing muscle biopsy. This case is one of the oldest onset of weakness in genetically confirmed FSH and highlights the recognized expansion in phenotype that has occurred since the advent of genetic testing. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3457597/ /pubmed/23024867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/726984 Text en Copyright © 2012 Dominic B. Fee. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
title_full Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
title_fullStr Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
title_full_unstemmed Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
title_short Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
title_sort elderly onset of weakness in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457597/
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