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Comparative efficacy of repetitive nerve stimulation, exercise, and cold in differentiating myotonic disorders.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Nov 2007
Michel Patrik, Sternberg Damien, Jeannet Pierre-Yves, Dunand Murielle, Thonney Francine, Kress Wolfram, Fontaine Bertrand, Fournier Emmanuel, Kuntzer Thierry
Abstract excerpt
The decremental response of the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) to provocative tests is not characterized in genetically verified myotonic disorders. We therefore studied the relationship between decremental responses and mutation type in 10 patients with recessive myotonia congenita (rMC), two with paramyotonia congenita (PMC), nine with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), four with DM2, and 14 healthy...
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