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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Advocacy Organizations
Team Titin
Team Titin, Inc.'s mission is to serve those living with, caring for, or researching titin (TTN) related muscle and heart disorders.
Neuromuscular Disease Foundation
The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation's (NDF) mission is to enhance the quality of the lives of people living with GNE Myopathy (also known as HIBM) through advocacy, education, outreach, and funding clinical research focused on treatments and a cure.
Association Aux Pas du Coeur
Our organization wants to raise awareness and recognize rare diseases in Côte d'Ivoire. Our mission is to: Raising awareness and campaigning to help with the diagnosis and free therapeutic care of patients. Request and/or contribute to actions relating to the training of the medical profession so that doctors are able to make a final diagnosis and ensure the continuous follow-up of patients. Create a patient registry to establish very precise statistics of rare diseases in Côte d'Ivoire. Create a close-knit patient community. Break the isolation and despair of sick people and their families. Open up to the world and actively contribute to international research aimed at treatments.
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COMBINEDBrain Inc
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Syndromes Without A Name (SWAN) Australia
Provide information, support and advocacy to families caring for a child with an undiagnosed or rare genetic condition.
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