Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Synonyms: DMD | Severe dystrophinopathy, Duchenne type

A rare genetic muscular dystrophy characterized by rapidly progressive muscle weakness and wasting due to degeneration of skeletal smooth and cardiac muscle.

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Advocacy Organizations

All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS), New Delhi, India

Trinity of Care:Academic and Clinical

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, India

Solution for sustaining the wellbeing of DMD kids

Family, Friends and Duchenne, Inc.https://familyfriendsandduchenne.org/?amp=1

At Family, Friends and Duchenne, we focus on education, support and social inclusion worldwide for anyone whose life has been touched by an individual with Duchenne.

Help Hope Live

Help Hope Live supports community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical expenses and related costs due to organ transplants or catastrophic injuries or illnesses. For 38 years, Help Hope Live has been showing clients and families how to bring together a network of relatives, friends, and neighbors in fundraising efforts to help cover the cost of uncovered medical expenses. These efforts play a critical role in helping our clients recover and maintain their health and independence. Since 1983, we have helped thousands of people raise millions of dollars for Help Hope Live to pay a wide range of expenses, including out-of-pocket costs for: medications, durable medical equipment, home health care, wheelchair-accessibility modifications, physical therapy, innovative treatments, medical travel and temporary relocation, even emergency living assistance. Our program has also helped thousands pay it forward and assist others with their medical expenses. Annually, we help place medical care within reach of about 5,000 families across the nation.

My Faulty Gene

My Faulty Gene is a nonprofit organization which provides information and assistance to any individual whose family medical history suggests genetic testing might be helpful in identifying an increased risk of disease due to a genetic mutation. We believe that everyone in need of genetic testing should have access to it.

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.

Clinical Trials

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