Spinal muscular atrophy
Atrophy is a partial or complete wasting away of any given body part. Most commonly, however, muscles atrophy for a variety of reasons.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
What is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)?
Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare degenerative problem that affects the spinal cord and nerves, resulting in muscle wasting and weakness.
Spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of inherited diseases that cause muscles to lose function. The progressive muscle deterioration causes weakness and eventually leads to death.
Spinal muscular atrophy
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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease that causes muscle weakness and a progressive loss of movement. There is no cure, but therapy and support are available to help manage the condition.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Types I, II, and III belong to a group of hereditary diseases that cause weakness and wasting of the voluntary muscles in the arms and legs of infants and children.
Spinal muscular atrophy is a disorder that affects the control of muscle movement.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a collection of different muscle diseases. Grouped together, it is the second leading cause of neuromuscular disease. Most of the time, a person must get the defective gene from both parents to be affected.
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Definition of Post-polio muscular atrophy (PPMA)
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Bulbospinal muscular atrophy, X-linked
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Kennedy disease
Kennedy's disease
Kennedy spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
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Alternate Names : Progressive neuropathic (peroneal) muscular atrophy, Hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction, Neuropathy - peroneal (hereditary), Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
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Muscular Atrophy, Progressive; Duchenne-Aran Muscular Atrophy
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Muscular atrophy, the weakening and loss of muscle tissue, is caused by the decreased ability of nerves to control those muscles, as well as lack of nutrients for the muscles themselves.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type ALS
Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Included
Progressive Bulbar Palsy, Included
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy Causes, Symptoms And Treatment And Related Disorders
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by a loss of certain nerve cells called motor neurons.
Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that affects the spinal cord and nerves, resulting in muscle wasting and weakness.
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Progressive muscular atrophy
Primary lateral sclerosis and progressive pseudobulbar palsy
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Unlike spinal muscular atrophy, which has been linked to the long arm of chromosome 5, and survival of motor neuron gene (SMN1), no genetic linkage is known yet for PCH type 1. The inheritance of PCH follows an autosomal recessive pattern.
spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy - caused by mutations in the AR gene Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy results from an expansion of the CAG trinucleotide repeat in the AR gene.
Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy
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Adult SMA: Form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in adults.
Adult progressive spinal muscular atrophy, Aran Duchenne type: A group of inherited motor neuron diseases involving progressive muscle weakness, ...
These are termed family diseases, and include hereditary ataxia (Friedreich's disease), myotonia (Thomsen's disease), hereditary (Huntingdon's) chorea, amaurotic idiocy and various forms of idiopathic muscular atrophy.
Progressive Muscular Atrophy see Motor Neurone disease
Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia see Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, including Frontotemporal Dementia
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In progressive muscular atrophy and related syndromes (see MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL) the motor neurons in the spinal cord are primarily affected.
Fazio-Londe disease, infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffman syndrome), Juvenile progressive spinal muscular atrophy (Kugelberg-Welander disease), ...
People with post polio syndrome can have fatigue, muscle and joint pain, and muscular atrophy. Atrophy means a wasting or decrease in the size of muscles. People with PPS have progressive muscle weakness.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA), Progressive Bulbar Palsy (PBP) and Progressive Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) are all types of MND.
Myasthenia gravis is a complex, autoimmune disorder that causes problems with the nerves that communicate with muscles, resulting in weakness of the skeletal muscles.
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Progressive neuropathic (peroneal) muscular atrophy; Hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction; Neuropathy - peroneal (hereditary); Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
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An X-linked recessive disorder characterised by progressive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; associated features include distal degeneration of sensory axons, and signs of endocrine dysfunction, including diabetes mellitus, ...
Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy
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Erb's syphilitic spastic paraplegia an uncommon form of meningovascular syphilis marked by progressive spasticity and weakness of the legs, paraplegia, muscular atrophy, paresthesia, increased knee and ankle reflexes, and incontinence.
Some MND are not fatal and progress slowly. Individuals with the spinal muscular atrophy disorders may appear to be stable for long periods, although they will never improve. ALS is eventually fatal.
CAUSES"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease, resulting in muscular atrophy.
Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA). This is an uncommon form of MND. The small muscles of the hands and feet are usually first affected, but the muscles are not stiff.
Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS). This is a rare type of MND.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), known also as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN), Hereditary Sensorimotor Neuropathy (HSMN), or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited disorder of nerves...
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Complications - with treatment there are no complications. But in untreated cases the median nerve may be damaged resulting to permanent muscle weakness and muscular atrophy.
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The progression of this condition is slower than that of the presentations described above. Progressive muscular atrophy can occur at any age, including in childhood. People may survive 25 years or more with this condition.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease has a different inheritance pattern, age of onset, signs and symptoms, severity, and progression. Other names for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease include hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy and peroneal muscular atrophy.
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