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Medicine (Baltimore)
December 2023
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Rationale: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM-1) is a progressive multisystem genetic disorder that causes myotonia and both distal limb and facial/neck muscle weakness by expanding the CTG repeats of the DMPK gene in chromosome 19q13.3. General anesthesia is indicated in DM-1 patients owing to their sensitivity to anesthetic drugs such as opioids, hypnotics, and neuromuscular blocking agents.
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March 2024
Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Comarcal La Inmaculada, Huércal-Overa (Almería), España.
Am J Gastroenterol
February 2021
Division of Gastroenterology, Rutgers/Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench
January 2020
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Type 1 myotonic dystrophy (MD) is a rare inherited disease which presents with skeletal muscle weakness and myotonia. Involvement of smooth muscles is also common and mainly manifests in the gastrointestinal tract. We report a case of type 1 MD who presented with dysphagia and was found to have unique esophageal manometry findings.
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March 2020
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan.
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