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Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal

Known as: Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophies, Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy, Progressive Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal Type 
An autosomal dominant hereditary disease that presents in late in life and is characterized by DYSPHAGIA and progressive ptosis of the eyelids… 
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2009
2009
Purpose: To clinically characterize blepharoptosis in Hispanic New Mexicans with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy and examine… 
2006
2006
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is due to short elongations of a polyalanine tract in the poly(A) binding protein… 
2006
2006
Background: Ptosis and dysphagia are important features in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). Objective: Retroflexion of… 
2004
2004
Improved techniques in esophageal manometry have made this test an attractive option for investigating pharyngeal or esophageal… 
2004
2004
We report a 75-year-old Spanish-American woman who received a diagnosis of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy after presenting… 
2003
2003
We reported a 52-year-old woman with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) harboring expanded (GCG) 13 mutation of the poly… 
1997
1997
Abstract. This study describes five patients with slowly developing dysphagia secondary to oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
The first results of a collaborative study aimed at collecting all French families affected by oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy… 
1982
1982
A family is reported which included a patient with a variant form of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. The patient's son…