Мегакониальная врожденная мышечная дистрофия

Определение

A rare, genetic, skeletal muscle disease characterized by an early-onset hypotonia, muscle weakness, global developmental delay with intellectual disability, and cardiomyopathy. Congenital structural heart defects and ichthyosiform cutaneous lesions have also been associated. Muscle biopsy shows characteristic enlarged mitochondria located at the periphery of muscle fibers.