Results: 3

Motor learning through a non-immersive virtual task in people with limb-girdle muscular dystrophies

INTRODUCTION: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are neuromuscular and genetic disorders that progress with weakness and damage of the proximal muscles, developing with loss of functionality. Virtual reality environments are suggested as an effective alternative for performance of daily life activi...

Distrofia muscular de cinturas 2J, revisión bibliográfi-ca y reporte de un caso pediátrico en Ecuador

Metro cienc; 28 (3), 2020
RESUMEN La distrofia muscular de cinturas de las extremidades (LGMD, por sus siglas en inglés) incluye varios trastornos con etiologías heterogéneas. Se heredan en patrón autosómico recesivo o autosómico dominante y constituyen la cuarta causa genética más común de debilidad muscular, reportando...

Late-onset Pompe disease: what is the prevalence of limb-girdle muscular weakness presentation?

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 76 (4), 2018
ABSTRACT Pompe disease is an inherited disease caused by acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) deficiency. A single center observational study aimed at assessing the prevalence of late-onset Pompe disease in a high-risk Brazilian population, using the dried blood spot test to detect GAA deficiency as a main scree...