Types of Muscular Dystrophy

The conditions listed below are covered by MDI. For more information on a specific condition, click on the appropriate link.  The factsheets attached to each link were produced by our colleages from Muscular Dystrophy Campaign in the UK and we (MDI) find them to be very informative.  If you are in any doubt over whether MDI covers the condition you or someone you know has, please do not hesitate to contact the Information Officer emailing info@mdi.ie or telephoning the Head Office on 01 6236414.

   1. Muscular Dystrophies
       Becker muscular dystrophy
       Congenital muscular dystrophy - General
        -   MDC1A (merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy
        -   Rigid spine syndrome (RSS)
        -   Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophies
       Duchenne muscular dystrophy
       Emry-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
       Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
       Limb-girdle types of muscular dystrophy (LGMD) - General
        -   LGMD 1B (also known as Liminopathy
        -   LGMD 1C (also known as Caveolinopathy)
        -   LGMD 2A (also known as Calpainopathy)
        -   LGMD 2B (also known as Dysferlinopathy)
        -   LGMD 2I
        -   LDMG  2C 2D 2E &  2F
       Ocular myopathies including ocularopharangeal muscular dystrophy 

   2. Myotonic Disorders
       Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
       Myotonia
       Myotonic Dystrophy

   3. Congenital Myopathies
       Central Core Myopathy
       Congenital fibre-type disproportion myopathy
       Minicore (Multicore) myopathy
       Myotubular or Centronuclear myopathy
       Nemaline myopathy  

   4. Mitochondrial Myopathies  

   5. Metabolic Disorders
       McArdles Disease
       Metaboolic Conditions

   6. Periodic Paralyses  

   7. Autoimmune Myositides
       Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis and Sarcoid myopathy
       Juvenile dermatomyositis
       Inclusion body myositis  

   8. Spinal Muscular Atrophies - (SMA Factsheets taken from Jennifer Trust Website)
       Severe (Type I)
       Intermediate (Type II)
       Mild (Type III)
       Adult spinal muscular atrophy  

   9. Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies
       (Also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth or Peroneal muscular atrophy)   

  10. Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
        Myasthenia Gravis