Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Case Study

If your boy is between 1 and 3 years of age the initial signs of difficulty walking. They usually can not run like the same age jump, climbing stairs are often very difficult, but also need to use handrails support. In addition, they may be difficult to stand up from the ground. , And sometimes fall may also occur at this stage the boy began to study and / or behavioral difficulties. Between eight and eleven years old, the boy became unable to walk, realizing that the child's problem might be caused by a rare disease of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and that he could do some reliable checks. All the sick boy's blood has an exceptionally high content of this kind of called creatine kinase. Most of the hospital's laboratory can do this check. …show more content…
Therefore, for families that had previously had no such disease, other tests would be required to make a specific diagnosis. These tests may include: • Genetic testing • Muscle biopsy, with the most reliable genetic and protein tests, the diagnosis is indeed very clear. For doctors with experience in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, only two diseases may lead to confusion in the diagnosis, both of which are other types of muscular dystrophy. Autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy is about 20 times less likely to develop in the male than in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy type. Although the two diseases are somewhat similar, specialized tests can distinguish between the two different. Beck muscular dystrophy is a mild variant of the dystrophin deficiency but may be as severe in severity as the Duchenne muscular dystrophy type. At first, it may be difficult to determine the severity of the illness, but in most cases, the situation is very obvious. Protein and genetic testing can also make this difference more