Congenital myopathy with excess of thin filaments

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Congenital myopathy with excess of thin filaments

Synonyms: Actin myopathy

A rare genetic congenital myopathy disorder characterized by variable degrees of muscular weakness frequently associated with severe nemaline myopathy-like disease (including neonatal hypotonia lack of spontaneous movements feeding and swallowing difficulties frequent respiratory infections respiratory insufficiency early death) and histopathologic findings of large densely packed subsarcolemmal accumulations of thin actin-immunopositive filaments (with or without intranuclear nemaline rods) on muscle biopsy.

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