[Steinert disease].

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Steinert disease, also known as myotonic dystrophy type 1, is a muscle disease characterized by myotonia and by multiorgan damage that combines various degrees of muscle weakness, arrhythmia and/or cardiac conduction disorders, cataract, endocrine damage, sleep disorders and baldness. It is the most frequent of the adult-onset muscular dystrophies; its prevalence is estimated at 1/20,000 inhabitants. Diagnosis is...

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