Ahmad Cannot Run

Normal Growth Parameters
2. Physical growth includes attainment of full height and appropriate weight and an increase in size of all organs (except lymphatic tissue, which decreases in size)
3. Small for gestational age: < 10th percentile
  1. Appropriate for gestational age: 10th to 90th percentile
    1. - Large for gestational age: > 90th percentile.
anatomy of the foot
1. bone
2. muscles
possible causes
1. muscle dystrophy
  1. x-linked
    1. duchennes muscle dystrophy
      1. in
      2. clinical presentation
        gowers sing
        calf muscles pseudohypertrophy
      3. progression and comlications
        progressive weakness of muscles
        cardiomyopathies
        respiratory failure
        possible effect on CNS
        DEATH USUALLY OCCURS BY 18- 20
      4. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
      5. Investigations
        History taking
        Genetic test
        Muscle biopsy
        Serum CK levels (>1000 U/L)
        Western blot
      6. management
        pallative care
        gene therapy may be apossible treatment
    2. Becker muscle dystrophy
    3. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
  2. autosomal dominant
    1. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
  3. autosomal recessive
    1. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
    2. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
physiology
1. muscle
  1. creatine kinase
  2. dystrophin
    1. form the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
2. gait

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	Created by meera alblushi over 8 years ago