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DOI: 10.3233/JPN-2012-0542
Neuromuscular disorders in children in South-Eastern Norway
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Publication History
06 May 2011
19 December 2011
Publication Date:
30 July 2015 (online)
Abstract
To describe the group of patients under the age of 18 who have neuromuscular disorders and are from a region with 1.65 million inhabitants in South-Eastern Norway. Patients with known or suspected neuromuscular disorders were identified by neuropediatricians/rehabilitation teams in the region. We registered a total of 141 patients under the age of 18 who had a neuromuscular diagnosis, giving a prevalence of 35.6 × 10-5 in this population. It was possible to check the diagnoses of 122 patients. Duchenne muscular dystrophy was the largest group, followed by peripheral neuropathies, myotonic dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy. The prevalence figures for the different diagnostic entities are discussed on the basis of previously reported studies from the same area, from a comparable Swedish area and from other countries. We registered patients with a broad spectrum of neuromuscular diagnoses in our health region. The classical, well-known entities were the most prevalent conditions. It was difficult to make a very specific diagnosis in quite a few cases.