Category: Muscle disorders

Mats Steen died at the age of 25 from complications resulting from his Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to a Canada news story. Robert and Trude, his parents, were shocked by the life their son had led and felt alone and isolated after he passed away. Mats lived a large portion of his later years in his family’s basement. The news that their son would, in fact, be remembered by dozens of individuals around Europe that he had met online in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft caught his parents off guard.

Metabolic diseases of the muscles are metabolic myopathies that act as abnormalities of the muscles and have as the result skeletal muscle dysfunctions. These health issues were discovered quite late, in the 20^th century.

Muscular dystrophy means a group of progressive muscular diseases without a pathology. These sorts of diseases affect the muscles and eventually produce permanent degeneration of the muscle fibers.