Types of Muscular Dystrophy?

Muscular Dystrophies:

• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) MDSA Fact Sheet
  (Also known as Pseudohypertrophic)
• Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) MDSA Fact sheet
• Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD)
• Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD)
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH or FSHD)
  (Also known as Landouzy-Dejerine)
• Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)
  (Also known as Steinert's Disease)
• Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD)
• Distal Muscular Dystrophy (DD)
• Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)

Motor Neuron Disease:

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  (Also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease)
• Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA, SMA1 or WH)
  (Also known as SMA Type 1, Werdnig-Hoffman)
• Intermediate Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA or SMA2)
  (Also known as SMA Type 2)
• Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA, SMA3 or KW)
  (Also known as SMA Type 3, Kugelberg-Welander)
• Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA)
  (Also known as Kennedy's Disease and X-Linked SBMA)
• Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Inflammatory Myopathies:

• Dermatomyositis (PM/DM)
• Polymyositis (PM/DM)

Disease of the Neuromuscular Junction:

• Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
• Lambert-Eaton Syndrome (LES)

Myopathies due to Endocrine:

• Hyperthyroid Myopathy (HYPTM)
• Hypothyroid Myopathy (HYPOTM)

Disease of Peripheral Nerve:

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) MDSA Fact Sheet
  (Also known as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN) or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy (PMA))
• Friedreich's Ataxia (FA)
• Dejerine-Sottas Disease (DS)
  (Also known as CMT Type 3 or Progressive Hypertrophic Interstitial Neuropathy)

Other Myopathies:

• Myotonia Congenita (MC)
  (Two forms: Thomsen's and Becker's Disease)
• Paramyotonia Congenita (PC)
• Central Core Disease (CCD)
• Nemaline Myopathy (NM)
• Myotubular Myopathy (MTM or MM)
• Periodic Paralysis (PP)
  (Two forms: Hypokalemic and Hyperkalemic)

Metabolic Disease of the Muscle:

• Phosphorylase Deficiency (MPD or PYGM)
  (Also known as McArdle's Disease)
• Acid Maltase Deficiency (AMD)
  (Also known as Pompe's Disease)
• Phosphofructokinase Deficiency (PFKM)
  (Also known as Tarui's Disease)
• Debrancher Enzyme Deficiency (DBD)
  (Also known as Cori's or Forbes' Disease)
• Mitochondrial Myopathy (MITO)
• Carnitine Deficiency (CD)
• Carnitine Palmityl Transferase Deficiency (CPT)
• Phosphoglycerate Kinase Deficiency (PGK)
• Phosphoglycerate Mutase Deficiency (PGAM or PGAMM)
• Lactate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (LDHA)
• Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency (MAD)