Find information on thousands of medical conditions and prescription drugs.

Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

Oculopharyngeal dystrophy (OPD), or oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, is a form of muscular dystrophy characterized in some stages by deformation of the eyelid, speech impediment, and difficulty swallowing due to dystrophia of the pharynx.

Home

Diseases

Obesity

Obsessive-compulsive...

Occipital horn syndrome

OCD

Ochronosis

Oculocutaneous albinism,...

Oculopharyngeal muscular...

Olivopontocerebellar atrophy

Opportunistic infections

Oppositional defiant...

Orthostatic intolerance

Osgood-Schlatter disease

Osteitis deformans

Osteoarthritis

Osteochondritis

Osteochondritis dissecans

Osteochondroma

Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Osteomalacia

Osteomyelitis

Osteopetrosis, (generic...

Osteoporosis

Osteosclerosis

Otosclerosis

Otospondylomegaepiphyseal...

Ovarian cancer

Medicines

Read more at Wikipedia.org

• [List your site here Free!]



	Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy complicating airway management - selected reports Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an uncommon autosomal dominant disorder characterized by late onset and slow progression. Complications ... From CHEST, 12/1/01 by Kenneth Christopher

	Muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of inherited disorders in which strength and muscle bulk gradually decline. Nine types of muscular dystrophies ... From Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 4/6/01 by Richard Robinson

	Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome complicating oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy - selected reports We report a 75-year-old Spanish-American woman who received a diagnosis of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy after presenting with ptosis and dysphagia. From CHEST, 1/1/04 by David L. Dedrick

	The muscular dystrophies - Fortnightly Review The various forms of muscular dystrophy are all inherited and involve progressive wasting and weakness of muscles. Recent advances make it possible to use protein and gene analysis to make precise dia From British Medical Journal, 10/10/98 by Alan E.H. Emery

	Muscular dystrophy: Identification and use of genes for diagnostics and therapeutics The application of cloned genes and their protein prod ucts to molecular diagnostics has been an increasingly im portant area of pathology. The first ... From Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 11/1/99 by Hoffman, Eric P

	Muscular dystrophy Definition Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of inherited disorders in which strength and muscle bulk gradually decline. Nine types of ... From Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, by MD L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., DrPH

	Chronic cough as the sole manifestation of Hodgkin's disease Chronic cough is a common diagnostic and therapeutic problem. It has been shown that by using a systematic approach, one can almost always successfully ... From CHEST, 3/1/92 by Stephen M. Akers

Home

Contact

Resources

Exchange Links

ebay