Muscular dystrophy

Description

Progressive, hereditary skeletal muscle diseases characterised by muscle weakness, wasting, defects in muscle proteins, necrosis of muscle tissue and replacement of muscle tissue with connective and fatty tissue.

Exclusions from above levels

http://id.who.int/icd/entity/155258022 – Metabolic disorders
LD26.41 – Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases

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18 – Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes

Child codes

8C70.0 – Becker muscular dystrophy
8C70.1 – Duchenne muscular dystrophy
8C70.2 – Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
8C70.3 – Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
8C70.4 – Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
8C70.5 – Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
8C70.6 – Congenital muscular dystrophy
8C70.Y – Other specified muscular dystrophy
8C70.Z – Muscular dystrophy, unspecified

Foundation children elsewhere

9C82.1 – Muscular dystrophy affecting extraocular muscle

Sibling codes

8C71 – Myotonic disorders
8C72 – Congenital myopathies
8C73 – Mitochondrial myopathies
8C74 – Periodic paralyses or disorders of muscle membrane excitability
8C75 – Distal myopathies
8C76 – Myofibrillar myopathy
8C77 – Ocular myopathy
8C78 – Malignant hyperthermia or hyperpyrexia
8C7Y – Other specified primary disorders of muscles
8C7Z – Primary disorders of muscles, unspecified

Foundation entity

Muscular dystrophy – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1464662404

Part of: 08: Diseases of the nervous system