Duchenne Type Muscular Dystrophy: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

  • Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (synonym: Hauptmann-Thannhauser syndrome) – autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive or X-linked inherited muscle disorder that manifests in childhood.
  • Facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) – autosomal-dominant inherited muscle disease with muscle weakness in the face (fazio-), shoulder girdle (-scapulo-) and upper arms (-humeral); manifestation: insidious in adolescence or young adulthood onset.
  • Limb-girdle dystrophy – group of hereditary muscle diseases (myopathies), the common feature of which is paralysis of the muscles of the shoulder and pelvic girdle; onset: infancy to old adulthood.
  • Lambert-Eaton-Rooke syndrome (synonyms: Lambert-Eaton syndrome (LES), pseudomyasthenia, pseudomyasthenic syndrome; English Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) – rare neurological disorder whose characteristic feature is proximally emphasized muscle weakness; age of manifestation: adulthood.
  • Becker-Kiener muscular dystrophy – X-linked recessive muscle disease that is slowly progressive and results in muscle weakness.
  • Neuromuscular and myopathic complications of HIV.
  • Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – muscle atrophy caused by progressive loss of motor neurons in the anterior horn of the spinal cord; manifests between the ages of five and 15.
  • Spinobulbar muscular atrophy type Kennedy (SBMA) – X-linked recessive inherited disease from the group of trinucleotide diseases; manifests in adulthood.