Diagnosis Recessive myotonia congenita (Becker's disease). Management Explanation of the nature of the disease and treatment with mexiletine 200 mg twice daily. A 56-year-old woman with a history ...

"The typical inability to relax after a muscle contraction in myotonia congenita is not seen during or between attacks of adynamia episodica hereditaria." It was therefore with some interest that ...

The presence of grip myotonia, which indicates DM1, notably narrows the differential diagnosis to only a few diseases, such as myotonia congenita ... that she had been diagnosed with intellectual ...

Methods: Studies on speech production were done on 30 mildly affected patients with myotonic dystrophy. Special attention was paid to myotonia. Because muscle activity can result in a decrease of ...

And they didn’t actually faint. These goats have a hereditary condition called myotonia congenita. This is an inherited disorder that can occur in people as well and affects skeletal muscles.

leading to decreased patient quality-of-life and often significant disability. NaMuscla is the first and only antimyotonic agent licensed to treat symptomatic myotonia in adults with non-dystrophic ...