Definition of Muscular dystrophy:
Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve progressive muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
The group of diseases called muscular dystrophies (MD) includes many inherited disorders, such as:
Lambert-Eaton syndrome and myasthenia gravis also have symptoms that may be similar to early stages of some types of muscular dystrophies, so these disorders must be ruled out before muscular dystrophy is diagnosed.
