Walsh & Hoyt: Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

A number of patients have dystrophic muscle pathology associated with symptoms that are present at birth and a variable clinical course. These patients are said to have congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). CMD is by no means rare. Rospide et al. believed that it represented 16% of childhood muscular dystrophies, and Donner et al. estimated that it represented 9% of all neuromuscular disorders seen in a pediatric hospital. Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy. Muscle-eye-brain disease. Walker-Warburg syndrome. Nosologic relations of congenital muscular dystrophies.