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Steroids

• Last Edited: 21 Apr 2009
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This information is to help you think about if your child with Duchenne would benefit from steroids or not. This is not intended to replace a discussion with a required muscle clinic team but more...

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Bone Health in Duchenne

• Last Edited: 10 May 2009
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Bone Health in Duchenne Muscular DystrophyA WORKSHOP REPORT FROM THE MEETING IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, JULY 8, 2004Biggar WD1 Bachrach LR2 Henderson RC3 Kalkwarf H4 Plotkin H5 Wong BL4 Bloorview MacMil...

Tags: bones, bone density, vitamin D, calcium, bisphosphonates, fractures, bone health, DEXA, steroids.

The Role of Corticosteroids in Muscular Dystrophy

• Last Edited: 7 Jul 2009
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A review of some recent papers by Dr Karl BettelheimIn a review published just two years ago Angelini (1) examined the role of corticosteroids in muscular dystrophy. He refers to a number of studi...

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Steroid treatment

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2009
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At the annual meeting of Action Duchenne in London in November 2007, Prof. Adnan Manzur of the Hammersmith Hospital in London gave an overview of the actual state of steroids treatment, presently...

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treatments and remedies

• Last Edited: 20 Jul 2009
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Steroids slow muscle loss, improve strength, and help restore energy. There can be significant side effects such as weight gain, short stature, delay of puberty, facial ‘puffiness,’ oste...

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Duchenne Information

• Last Edited: 26 Jul 2009
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The muscular dystrophies are an inherited group of progressive myopathic disorders resulting from defects in a number of genes required for normal muscle function 1 . The Duchenne and Becker muscu...

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