Nemaline Myopathy: Respiratory Failure

Abstract

A Japanese boy with nemaline myopathy diagnosed at three years of age and complicated by severe respiratory failure at 8 years is reported from the Division of Child Neurology, National Center Hospital for Mental, Nervous, and Muscular Disorders, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords

• nemaline myopathy
• pneumothorax
• fibrous tissue