How can we explain the decrease in taste in a patient with desminopathy (myofibrillar myopathy)?

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Michael Halim Popular answer

Probably affect facial nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve in the pons and medulla oblongata?

Michael Halim

Chinaza Godswill Awuchi

Kindly check https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776705/

Also check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8919386_Desmin_myopathy