More than 10,000 patients have filed lawsuits against Bayer, which pulled the drug in 2001 because it can cause a rare, sometimes fatal, muscle disorder.

This does not, however, rule out the possibility of sarcospan playing a primary role in a muscle disorder.

Her father says she has compartment syndrome, a congenital muscle disorder.

In the new report, the researchers describe the genetic defect and how it causes the muscle disorder.

Until the age of 5, she received physical therapy for a muscle disorder and her parents were told she would never excel at sports.

Congenital myopathy is a term for any muscle disorder present at birth.

He also performed important research of jaundice, liver cancer and cardiac muscle disorders.

Inherited muscle disorders and infections together cause the majority of rhabdomyolysis in children.

Excessive levels of those drugs can lead to a serious and sometimes fatal muscle disorder called rhabdomyolysis.

There may be no known cause for a muscle disorder.