Name of disorder

Abbr.

Is the disorder known by other names?

Becker MD

BMD

Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy

HMSN

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy

Myopathies, including: Central Core Disorder Congenital Fibre Type Disproportion Myopathy Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis Myotubular Myopathy Nemaline Myopathy Minicore Myopathy Myotonia Congenita Paramyotonia Congenita

CM CCD FTDM HPP NM MC PMC

Central Core Myopathy Adynamia episodica hereditaria Centronuclear Myopathy Rod body disease Multicore Myopathy Thomson's Disease Eulenberg's Disease

Duchenne MD

DMD

Education of Children with MD

Emery-Dreifuss MD

ED

Facioscapulohumeral (FSHD)

FSHD

Landouzy-Dejerine disorder

Friedreich's Ataxia

FA

General Health Measures

Genetics

Guide to Parents

Guillian Barré Syndrome

GBS

Acute Idiopathic Polyneuritis, or Landry's Ascending Paralysis (Miller-Fisher Syndrome is a separate variant)

Limb-Girdle MD

LGMD

or LGD

Malignant Hyperthermia

MH

Malignant Hyperpyrexia

Metabolic Disorders Causing Pain

Mitochondrial Myopathies: Myoclonic epilepsy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes Mitochondrial encephalopathy and ragged red fibres KSS Kearns-Sayre Syndrome Lebers Lebers Leigh Syndrome

MM MELAS MERRF KSS LHON LS

MITEM disorders, OXPHOS disorders, Oculocraniosomatic neuromuscular disorder Lebers Hereditary Optic Neuropathy ---

Myasthenia Gravis

MG

Myositis Ossificans Progressiva

MOP

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

Myotonias Myotonia Congenita, and Paramyotonia Congenita

MC PMC

Autosomal Dominant MC = Thomsen's disease autosomal recessive MC = Beckers myotonia PMC = Eulenberg's disease

Myotonic Dystrophy

MD

Steinert's disorder or Dystrophia Myotonica

Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy

OPCA

Marie Ataxia

Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis

Spinal Muscular Atrophy, including: Infantile progressive SMA Juvenile SMA

SMA

Werdnig-Hoffman disorder Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disorder

Please note

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Compiled by: MDF-Gauteng Branch
Updated by: MDF-Gauteng Branch
Approved and Released by: National Office of the MDF                           
Last update: 30 May 2000

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