Muscular Fasciculation and Reactive Myotonia in Polyneuritis

Worster‐Drought, C.; Sargent, Frank

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“…In dystrophia myotonica the muscle fibres are dystrophic with evidence of necrosis and degeneration; in myotonia congenita the fibres show little sign of pathology though they are commonly hypertrophied; in paramyotonia the condition is induced by cold. Finally myotonia has been reported as a feature of adynamia episodica (Van der Meulen, Gilbert, and Kane, 1961) and polyneuritis (Worster-Drought and Sargent, 1952). The condition also occurs in an inherited form in goats (Kolb, 1938;Brown and Harvey, 1939) and is a frequent finding in hereditary mouse dystrophy (McIntyre, Bennett, and Brodkey, 1959;Lenman, 1963;McComas and Mossawy, 1965).…”

Section: Muscular Dystrophy Laboratories Newcastle General Hospitalmentioning

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The electrical properties of muscle fiber membranes in dystrophia myotonica and myotonia congenita.

McComas¹,

Mrozek²

1968

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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Section: Muscular Dystrophy Laboratories Newcastle General Hospitalmentioning

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The electrical properties of muscle fiber membranes in dystrophia myotonica and myotonia congenita.

McComas¹,

Mrozek²

1968

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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“…Hence it is possible that it may have masked clinical myotonia in our patient. The raised spinal fluid protein and the neuropathy also raised the question of Landry-Guillain-Barre-Strohl syndrome with reactive myotonia (Worster-Drought and Sargent, 1952). This was unlikely in our case because of the history, clinical picture, and biopsy findings.…”

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Early onset myotonic dystrophy in association with polyneuropathy.

K¹,

Smith²,

Kalyanaraman³

1975

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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SYNOPSIS A patient with early onset myotonic dystrophy, with associated neuropathy and epilepsy, is presented. It is postulated that his disorder was inherited through a recessive, pleomorphic gene. His differential diagnosis is discussed and the literature reviewed. The clinical variability of myotonic dystrophy is stressed and the diagnostic difficulties encountered in the younger age group.The occurrence of myotonic dystrophy in children as compared with adults is relatively uncommon. There have been reports of its incidence between the ages 6 and 14 years by Maas and Patterson (1943). However, it was Vanier (1960), Dodge et al. (1965), and Pruzanski (1966) who put the subject into proper perspective, recognizing the atypical nature of the disease in children. They described, besides the classical type, the dysembryoplasic and dysphagic types (Dodge et al., 1965;Pruzanski, 1966), and divided their patients into three groups according to the clinical manifestation. Watters and Williams (1967) added a fourth group.The features considered to be characteristic in adults, such as ptosis, cataracts, baldness, endocrine abnormalities, and percussion myotonia, are seldom seen in the younger age group (Watters and Williams, 1967). Found instead are congenital anomalies such as high arched palate and skeletal abnormalities like talipes equinovarus and kyphoscoliosis (Aberfield et al., 1965;Pearson et al., 1967).Recently there have been reports of evidence of neuropathy associated with myotonic dystrophy (McComas et al., 1971;Caccia et al., 1972;Kalyanaraman et al., 1973).The purpose of this paper is to stress the pleomorphism of myotonic dystrophy in the There was no family history of similar difficulties; both his parents were in good health as was one younger sister.He was a pleasant adolescent of normal intelligence. The face was long and thin; the head scaphocephalic; the neck thin and swan-like, with extreme wasting of the sternocleidomastoid muscles ( Fig. 1) and marked weakness of the flexor muscles of the neck so that the head could not be lifted against gravity; the palate was high-arched and the teeth malaligned. The cardiac, respiratory, and gastro-

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“…I have only found these discharges in tibialis anticus in Charcot-Marie-Tooth -disease, and I have never seen them in the upper limb. Myotonic discharges are not uncommon in states of denervation and have previously been described in these conditions by Worster-Drought & Sargent (1952).…”

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Discussion on Electrodiagnosis

1961

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

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Muscular Fasciculation and Reactive Myotonia in Polyneuritis

Cited by 15 publications

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The electrical properties of muscle fiber membranes in dystrophia myotonica and myotonia congenita.

The electrical properties of muscle fiber membranes in dystrophia myotonica and myotonia congenita.

Early onset myotonic dystrophy in association with polyneuropathy.

Discussion on Electrodiagnosis

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