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Megaconial congenital muscular dystrophy
Disease definition
A rare, genetic, skeletal muscle disease characterized by an early-onset hypotonia, muscle weakness, global developmental delay with intellectual disability, and cardiomyopathy. Congenital structural heart defects and ichthyosiform cutaneous lesions have also been associated. Muscle biopsy shows characteristic enlarged mitochondria located at the periphery of muscle fibers.
ORPHA:280671
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Congenital megaconial myopathy
- Congenital muscular dystrophy due to phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis defect
- Congenital muscular dystrophy with mitochondrial structural abnormalities
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: Autosomal recessive
- Age of onset: Infancy, Neonatal
- ICD-10: G71.2
- ICD-11: 8C70.6
- OMIM: 602541
- UMLS: C1865233
- MeSH: C566527
- GARD: 10317
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2019) Español (2019) Français (2019) Italiano (2019) Nederlands (2019)
Detailed information
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- English (2015) - Neurology
Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2012) - GeneReviews
- English (2023) - GeneReviews


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