{"id":12781,"date":"2024-08-08T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr66givry2.onrocket.site\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:41:21","slug":"mdf-facilitates-initial-translation-steinerts-publication-myotonic-dystrophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/mdf-facilitates-initial-translation-steinerts-publication-myotonic-dystrophy\/","title":{"rendered":"MDF Facilitates Initial Translation of Steinert&#8217;s Publication on Myotonic Dystrophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"date-of-publication\">The Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (MDF) facilitated the translation of Dr. Hans Steinert\u2019s initial descriptions of patients with myotonic dystrophy. This work was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-08\/Steinert-1909.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally published<\/a>\u00a0in Steinert\u2019s native language German.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In 1904, Dr. Steinert, then an Associate Professor at Leipzig Medical Hospital, presented three cases of myotonia congenita Thomsen, complicated by a progressive muscular dystrophy, to the Leipzig Medical Society. In his original publication, he noted that \u201cthe distribution of the dystrophy was \u201ca peculiar one and the exact same in all three cases\u201d. Steinert subsequently presented and reasoned \u201cthat the majority of cases of muscular atrophy in people with myotonic dystrophy\u201d are characterized by specific symptoms and progression.<\/p>\n<p>The article was translated by Dr. Corinna Fehle, PhD and thereafter clinically reviewed by Dr. Benedikt Schoser, MD. We would like to thank Dr. Adam D. Comer, MD for the idea to complete this translation. The translation is made available through funding from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The pdf contains the translation, designated as draft as figures, legends, and references are not translated and the language itself has not been \u201cmodernized\u201d, followed by the original article in German.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-08\/Steinert_English-Translation_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download the the English Translation of Dr. Hans Steinert&#8217;s Original Description of Myotonic Dystrophy! &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (MDF) facilitated the translation of Dr. Hans Steinert\u2019s initial descriptions of patients with myotonic dystrophy. This work was originally published\u00a0in Steinert\u2019s native language German. In 1904, Dr. Steinert, then an Associate Professor at Leipzig Medical Hospital, presented three cases of myotonia congenita Thomsen, complicated by a progressive muscular dystrophy, to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}