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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease neuromuscular disease
Phenotype C0036439|scoliosis
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PubMedID- 23762378 The congenital muscular dystrophies (cmds) are a group of heterogeneous pediatric neuromuscular diseases that present with hypotonia, progressive scoliosis, contractures and respiratory insufficiency.
PubMedID- 25434648 Therefore, scoliosis in patients with neuromuscular disease will both lead to increased "load" and a weakened "pump", an exceptionally unfortunate combination.
PubMedID- 26350797 An improvement in lung function and a potential decrease in the incidence of pneumonia have been the major goals for scoliosis surgery in patients with neuromuscular disease.
PubMedID- 20691105 A few studies have compared blood loss during scoliosis surgery in patients with neuromuscular disease and those without [5].

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