Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy: See: Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss.
Definition - One of nine types of muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic, degenerative diseases ...
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Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a condition that chiefly affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles) and heart (cardiac) muscle.
Disease characteristics. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is characterized by the clinical triad of joint contractures that begin in early childhood, slowly ...
Although it was probably first described in the early 1900s, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) was not clearly delineated as a separate disease until ...