These changes seldom cause trouble with vision, nevertheless it has been suggested that people with FSH dystrophy should have periodic examination by an eye specialist. In children who are affected by severe FSH dystrophy of early onset, deafness is frequent. Since this was first observed, deafness has ben looked for in more mildly affected people and it has been found that it is more frequent than in the general population. In very mild cases, it may not be possible to detect progression of weakness. Compared with other muscular dystrophies, FSH dystrophy is described as relatively benign and relatively slowly progressive.
All muscular dystrophies are by definition inherited.
FSH is inherited as an autosomal dominant disease. If he or she does inherit the defective gene, there is no way of predicting whether the result will be FSH of average severity, severe FSH or early onset or FSH of a very mild degree of disability. Includes a Bulletin Board for information exchange.