We studied the long-term prognosis of the patients of myotonic dystrophy with tube feeding. Subjects were 51 patients (31 male patients and 20 female patients) of typical myotonic dystrophy who were at least once admitted in our hospital. We examined the age of the introduction of tube feeding, the cause of the introduction, respiratory and motor ability at the introduction, the duration of tube feeding, the cause of death and the extension of CTG repeats in the patients.
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