title: [Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Therapeutic principles and status after 14 years].
abstract: Eighty-one patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) were included in a retrospective investigation involving the period 1975-1989 with the object of describing a therapeutic programme to prevent the sequelae of the disease and to illustrate the course of the disease in the treated DMD-patients. The therapeutic programme was carried out at home under the supervision of a physiotherapist with current control examinations by specialists in neurology, orthopaedic surgery, physiurgy, pulmonary medicine and anaesthesia. Employing the Kaplan-Meier principle of calculation, it was found that the median age for cessation of ambulatory function was ten years and the age of survival 22 years. The results suggest that a daily training programme which includes prevention of contractures postpones cessation of ambulation and prolongs survival.
authors.affiliation: Arhus Kommunehospital, Neurologisk Afdeling.
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Hinge
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hein-Sørensen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Duchenne's muskeldystrofi. Behandlingsprincipper og status efter 14 år.