Nemaline myopathy: A congenital skeletal muscle disease where muscle weakness is caused by the presence of thread-like rods in the muscle cells. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Nemaline myopathy is available below.
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Prognosis for Nemaline myopathy: generally a progressive but unpredictable condition
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Nemaline myopathy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Nemaline myopathy, or a subtype of Nemaline myopathy,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Nemaline myopathy as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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