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CCD (Central core disease of muscle): One of the conditions that produces 'floppy baby' syndrome. CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn baby, slowly progressive muscle weakness, and muscle cramps after exercise. Muscle biopsy shows a key diagnostic finding (absent mitochondria in the center of many type I muscle fibers). CCD is inherited as a dominant trait. The CCD gene is on chromosome 19 (and involves ryanodine receptor-1).
Definition - one of a group of diseases that cause problems with the tone and contraction of skeletal muscles. Cause - multiple origins; commonly caused by defects in a gene ...
Central core disease is a disorder that affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles). ... CCD; CCO; Central Core Myopathy; Myopathy, Central Core; Shy-Magee Syndrome
Central core disease (CCD) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder characterised by central cores on muscle biopsy and clinical features of a congenital myopathy.
Central core disease (CCD) is so named because the muscle fibers of affected individuals contain strange metabolically inactive "cores." CCD primarily causes muscle ...
General Discussion. Central core disease (CCD) is a rare genetic neuromuscular disorder that is classified as a congenital myopathy, meaning that it is a muscle disorder ...