Re: atrophy/dystropy definition

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In a message dated 5/14/00 10:16:54 AM, liliwigg@... writes:

<< can someone tell me in a short answer what the difference is between

Atrophy (which we with CMT have) and Dystrophy (which the people with MD

have). >>

With Dystrophy the muscles just get weak, very weak.

With Atrophy the muscles shrink as well as get weak.

People with Muscular Dystrophy may look normal or overweight, including their

calves, because the muscles are still there at their normal size, they just

are too weak to function.

People with CMT or other muscular atrophies often have the stork legs because

the muscles have atrophied, or shrunk down to not much. When hands get

involved the muscles there shrink or atrophy away, too, leaving boney hands.

It can even happen in arms and thighs.

I know this doesn't explain we CMTers who have normal calves, but it explains

for most CMTers.

I hope this helps.

Kat

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I get to know a little boy in hospital who has Duchenne Muscle Dystrophy. He

had done the achilles tendon lenghtening and some other surgery because he

was tripping (like cmt people also do). These children (most of them are

boys, it is a x-linked disease) will sit in a wheel-chair with nine to

eleven years because they are not able to walk anymore. Before the age of 20

most of them will die. But there are also atrophies that make people die in

very young years. I have seen a report of a six year old boy on TV who was

in a electrical wheelchair and couldn' t do anything. Even breathing was

done by a machine at night.

Bye,

Gretchen Glick schrieb:

> Hello all, can someone tell me in a short answer what the difference is

> between Atrophy (which we with CMT have) and Dystrophy (which the people

> with MD have). An acquaintance asked me this recently, and I have pulled

> out dictionaries and have not come up with much. I just need this short

> type answer to be able to explain myself to others and also for my

> personal medical file. Thank you in advance!

>

> Gretchen

>

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In a message dated 14/05/00 11:18:39 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time,

KathleenLS@... writes:

<< I know this doesn't explain we CMTers who have normal calves, but it

explains

for most CMTers.

I hope this helps.

Kat

>>

Kat you just like to be diffrent.

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In a message dated 5/14/00 8:10:20 PM, jacee17@... writes:

<< Kat you just like to be diffrent. >>

Oh oh, you're on to me.

Kat

>^,^<

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--Dear Gretchen- MDA explained it like this, Dystropy turns muscle

into fat tissue and Atropy just deteriorates. Sounds simple to me.

- In egroups, Gretchen Glick <liliwigg@s...> wrote:

> Hello all, can someone tell me in a short answer what the

difference is

> between Atrophy (which we with CMT have) and Dystrophy (which the

people

> with MD have). An acquaintance asked me this recently, and I have

pulled

> out dictionaries and have not come up with much. I just need this

short

> type answer to be able to explain myself to others and also for my

> personal medical file. Thank you in advance!

>

> Gretchen