Diseases covered

Genetic Muscle diseases

• Mitochondrial Disease
• 'Channelopathies' including the Periodic Paralyses, Non-dystrophic myotonias, Andersen-Tawil Syndrome and Episodic Ataxia
• Muscular dystrophies including Duchenne's/Becker's muscular dystrophy, FSHD, limb girdle musuclar dystrophies, distal myopathies, OPMD
• Myotonic dystrophies
• Metabolic Myopathies including McArdle's and adult Pompe disease (acid maltase deficiency)
• Congenital myopathies/dystrophies

Acquired Muscle Diseases

• Dermatomyositis
• Polymyositis
• Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM)
• Necrotising myopathies (including statin myopathies)