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Axial muscle involvement in patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type R9.

Karoline Lolk RevsbechKaren RudolfAisha Munawar SheikhTahmina KhawajazadaJosefine de Stricker BorchJulia Rebecka DahlqvistNicoline LøkkenNanna WittingJohn Vissing
Published in: Muscle & nerve (2022)
Patients with LGMDR9 have severe involvement of their axial muscles and correspondingly have reduced trunk extension and flexion strength. Our findings define the axial muscles as some of the most severely involved muscle groups in LGMDR9, which should be considered in the clinical management of the disorder and monitoring of disease progression.
Keyphrases
  • muscular dystrophy
  • skeletal muscle
  • duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • early onset