Patient's question:
My nephew is 5 years old. He is not very active. In the first half of the year, he often complained of leg pain. After a thorough physical examination, it was found that he had pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy. Hello, how is DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) treated?Doctor's answer:
Patients with pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy exhibit changes in serum enzyme activity, characterized by a decrease in the activity of enzymes such as creatine phosphokinase (CPK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase, and aldehyde isomerase. Patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy show significant abnormalities in their serum enzyme profiles. CPK levels can be elevated to 10 to 100 times or even hundreds of times higher than normal levels.