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.
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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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Spinal muscular atrophy is a disorder that affects the control of muscle movement.
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type ALS
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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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Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy
Familial Muscular Atrophy
Hereditary Muscular Atrophy
Motor Neuron Disease
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Bulbospinal muscular atrophy, X-linked
KD
Kennedy disease
Kennedy's disease
Kennedy spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
SBMA
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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.
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, ...
SMA see Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Small Eye see Coloboma
SMEI see Dravet syndrome
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Smith-Magenis syndrome
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Fazio-Londe disease, infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffman syndrome), Juvenile progressive spinal muscular atrophy (Kugelberg-Welander disease), ...
Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (Spinal muscular atrophy)
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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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Bracing may be appropriate for scoliosis due to some types of neuromuscular disease, including spinal muscular atrophy, before growth is finished.
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.
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