Alexandra Prufer de Queiroz Campos Araujo, Jonas Alex Morales Saute, Clarisse Pereira Dias Drumond Fortes, Marcondes Cavalcante França, Jaqueline Almeida Pereira, Marco Antonio Veloso de Albuquerque, Alzira Alves de Siqueira Carvalho, Eduardo Boiteux Uchôa Cavalcanti, Anna Paula Paranhos Miranda Covaleski, Simone Chaves Fagondes, Juliana Gurgel-Giannetti, Marcus Vinicius Magno Gonçalves, Alberto Rolim Muro Martinez, Antônio Rodrigues Coimbra Neto, Flavio Reis Neves, Anamarli Nucci, Ana Paula Cassetta Dos Santos Nucera, Andre Luis Santos Pessoa, Marcos Ferreira Rebel, Flavia Nardes Dos Santos, Rosana Herminia Scola, Cláudia Ferreira da Rosa Sobreira
In the last few decades, there have been considerable improvements in the diagnosis and care of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common childhood muscular dystrophy. International guidelines have been published and recently reviewed. A group of Brazilian experts has developed a standard of care based on a literature review with evidence-based graded recommendations in a two-part publication. Implementing best practice management has helped change the natural history of this chronic progressive disorder, in which the life expectancy for children of the male sex in the past used to be very limited...
January 2023: Arquivos de Neuro-psiquiatria