Catalog

Myotonic dystrophy type 1

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Link to WHO Definition

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/557405480

Steinert disease, also known as myotonic dystrophy type 1, is a skeletal muscle disease characterised by myotonia and by multiorgan damage that combines various degrees of muscle weakness, arrhythmia and/or cardiac conduction disorders, cataract, endocrine damage, sleep disorders and baldness.