Familial non-progressive myopathy with muscle cramps after exercise. A new disease associated with cores in the muscle fibres.
Familial non-progressive myopathy with muscle cramps after exercise. A new disease associated with cores in the muscle fibres.
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家族性非进行性肌病,运动后伴有肌肉痉挛。
DOI:
10.1093/brain/89.3.569
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发表时间:
1966
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通讯作者:
A. Meijer
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作者:
J. Bethlem;J. van Gool;W. C. Hülsmann;A. Meijer
IN 1956 Shy and Magee described a family of 5 patients through three generations, with a non-progressive myopathy. The onset was congenital or within the first months of life. Hypotonia was evident in the children but not in the adults. These patients showed symmetrical proximal muscle weakness involving the upper and lower limbs. The only abnormal chemical finding was excessive urinary creatine excretion and diminished creatinine excretion.Biopsy specimens were obtained from the vastus lateralis in the 5 patients. In the centre of nearly every muscle fibre a collection of abnormal myofibrils stained azurophilically with the Gomori trichrome stain, whereas the outer fibrils stained a normal red. Some fibres contained several (up to five) zones of pathological fibrils. The diameter of the muscle fibres was equal and normal, but occasional fibres had a very large diameter (up to 240; x). There was a moderate increase in both perimysial and endomysial adipose tissue. Greenfield, Cornman and Shy introduced the term" central core disease" for this new myopathy in 1958. The second report was published by Bethlem and Posthumus Meyjes (1960), who described a non-hereditary case which was clinically and histologically identical to the cases described by Shy and Magee.