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ORPHA:596Disease
Also called X-linked myotubular myopathy · XLCNM · XLMTM
What it is
A rare X-linked congenital myopathy characterized by numerous centrally placed nuclei on muscle biopsy and that presents at birth with marked weakness, hypotonia and respiratory failure.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- 1-9 / 1 000 000 (Europe)
- Age of onset
- Antenatal, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- X-linked recessive
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Common30–79%
17- Abnormality of the eye
- Centrally nucleated skeletal muscle fibers
- Decreased fetal movement
- Fatigable weakness of bulbar muscles
- Fatigable weakness of swallowing muscles
- Feeding difficulties in infancy
- Necklace skeletal muscle fibers
- Neonatal hypotonia
- Pneumonia
- Polyhydramnios
- Poor suck
- Premature birth
- Recurrent respiratory infections
- Respiratory distress
- Respiratory failure requiring assisted ventilation
- Severe muscular hypotonia
- Weakness of facial musculature
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Gene
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Benefit programs to look at
Programs whose eligibility touches the same ICD-10 categories. Eligibility is decided by the administering agency, never by this page.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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