Patient's question:
10 years of onset, now 18 years of course, can walk on flat ground, but cannot climb stairs, no other symptoms except for weakness in the limbs and waist, no family medical history, has a younger brother and sister who are both healthy. How is it possible to marry and have children in this condition? Besides the two siblings, if they marry and get pregnant, will there be any problems?Doctor's answer:
The cause of muscular dystrophy is abnormal familial genetic mutations, so there is currently no specific treatment for it to self-heal. Additionally, there is a high probability of inheriting it from one generation to the next in families, and the probability is even higher with consanguineous marriages. Muscular dystrophy is a group of primary skeletal muscle necrotic diseases characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, caused by familial intergenerational inheritance factors. Clinically, it primarily manifests as progressive muscle swelling and weakness of varying degrees and arrangements, as well as fatigue and cardiac involvement.