Muscular dystrophy

Definition

Progressive, hereditary skeletal muscle diseases characterised by muscle weakness, wasting, defects in muscle proteins, necrosis of muscle tissue and replacement of muscle tissue with connective and fatty tissue.

9 subordinate codes

• 8C70.0Becker muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.1Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.2Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.3Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.4Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.5Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
• 8C70.6Congenital muscular dystrophy
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified

Nearby in Primary disorders of muscles

• 8C71Myotonic disorders
• 8C72Congenital myopathies
• 8C73Mitochondrial myopathies
• 8C74Periodic paralyses or disorders of muscle membrane excitability
• 8C75Distal myopathies
• 8C76Myofibrillar myopathy
• 8C77Ocular myopathy
• 8C78Malignant hyperthermia or hyperpyrexia