Becker disease

Beck·er dis·ease

(bek'ĕr),

an obscure South African cardiomyopathy leading to rapidly fatal congestive heart failure and idiopathic mural endomyocardial disease.

Becker disease

(bĕk′ər)

An autosomal recessive form of myotonia congenita that is more severe than Thomsen disease and may include episodes of muscle weakness.

Beck·er dis·ease

(bek'ĕr di-zēz')

An obscure South African cardiomyopathy leading to rapidly fatal congestive heart failure and idiopathic mural endomyocardial disease.
Synonym(s): dilated cardiomyopathy.

Becker,

J.P.,

Becker disease - an obscure South African cardiomyopathy leading to rapidly fatal congestive heart failure and idiopathic mural endomyocardial disease.

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It can be associated with transient weakness during quick movements lasting only seconds or as long as thirty minutes in Becker disease (Jurkat-Rott et al.

Here we report clinical and molecular data from a family carrying a new mutation in the CLCN1 gene causing Becker disease and discuss the possible implications of the mutations and the function-structure-phenotype relationships in the CLCN1 channel.

The phenotype was consistent with a clinical diagnosis of myotonia congenita, Becker disease.

According to the clinical results obtained in this study, we concluded that the clinical picture of this family is compatible with myotonia congenita, and its autosomal recessive inheritance pattern suggested the diagnosis of Becker disease.

1996), reported that clinically unaffected heterozygous males, but no females, presented latent myotonia in six families affected with Becker disease, however, our clinically unaffected heterozygous males (I.

Clinical and molecular diagnosis of a Costa Rican family with autosomal recessive myotonia congenita (Becker disease) carrying a new mutation in the CLCN1 gene

The similarity between the myocardial dystrophy observed in ARVC and the skeletal muscular dystrophy observed in Duchenne and Becker diseases and the structural homology between the [alpha]-actinin gene and the amino-terminal domain of dystrophin are all highly suggestive of a defective [alpha]-actinin gene.

A 35-year-old woman with a history of arrhythmia and liver failure. (Pathologic Quiz Case)