<unk>  (EDMD) is a type of<unk>  dystrophy, a group of heritable diseases that cause progressive impairment of muscles. EDMD affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles), causing atrophy, weakness and contractures. It almost always affects the heart, causing abnormal rhythms, heart failure, or sudden cardiac death. It is rare, affecting 0.39 per 100,000 (1 per 250,000) people. It is named after Alan Eglin H.<unk>  and Fritz E.<unk> .
Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy
Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
X-linked spinal muscular atrophy type 2
Jokela type spinal muscular atrophy
Thiel–Behnke dystrophy
Danon disease