The First Rare Case of Muscular Atrophy in Libya (Chopra Amiel Gordon Syndrome - Abstract
Muscular atrophies are a clinically and heterogeneous group of disorders that all share clinical characteristics of progressive muscular weakness and wasted that involve any type of muscles .the cause of muscle atrophy could be due to acquired or genetic (inherited) neuromuscular diseases such as spinal muscular atrophy (called motor neurons) that control muscle movement. Genetic muscle atrophy may affect local region like face such as Chopra-Amiel-Gordon syndrome (CAGS) is were recently implicated in a newly-identified rare intellectual disability syndrome. It is an autosomal
dominant disorder characterized by developmental delay and/or impaired intellectual development Speech delay, facial atrophy, and variable other features, Chopra et al., [1]. Here, we present a case of CAGS in a 8-year-old male with remarkable clinical and mental manifestations.