Orthopedic & Muscular System: Current Research
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Muscular Dystrophy Scientific Journals

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an atypical inherited musculoskeletal disorder which shows clinical characteristics of progressive muscular weakness at an early stage and pathologic features of fibrosis and fatty replacement, particularly late in the disease course. It is a recessive X-linked disorder occurring 1 in every 3500 live male births and named after a French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne in 1860.

It is the most common and severe form of muscular dystrophy, beginning at 3–5 years of age and characterized by proximal muscle weakness and calf hypertrophy in affected boys.DMD has a very high mutation rate with distinctive and relentless clinical presentation. Patients usually become wheelchair-bound by the age of 12 and die in their late teens to early twenties. According to PubMed literature, approximately 150 cases have been reported till date. Here, we present a rare case of DMD in a 12-year-old child.