The importance of early diagnosis and treatment in treatable neuromuscular diseases

Abstract

Neuromuscular diseases represent a heterogeneous group of disorders involving peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and skeletal muscle. The most common symptoms are muscular weakness and amyotrophy in different body parts to varying degrees. Neuromuscular diseases have various types and most of those are lack of optimistic treatments. Pharmacological therapy usually cannot prevent the development of diseases, while a small group of neuromuscular diseases has a good therapeutic effect, and early diagnosis and timely treatment can delay disease progression and improve clinical symptoms. In this review, we will focus on the aspects of clinical features, diagnosis and specific treatment of treatable neuromuscular diseases.

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2018.08.001