Hirayama disease is a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting young males. This condition poses diagnostic challenges due to its subtle onset and progressive nature. Recognising the importance ...

Muscle atrophy is the loss of muscle mass ... Muscular dystrophy is a group of progressive conditions that cause loss of muscle mass and weakness. It occurs when one of the genes involved in ...

Study of 962 patients indicates progressive muscular atrophy is a form of ALS. Neurology 73 , 1686–1692 (2009). Article CAS Google Scholar ...

Between 20-24 years of age, all three siblings developed progressive muscle weakness and atrophy with swallowing and breathing difficulties. The two older siblings died of progressive fibrosis of ...

Muscle atrophy is when muscles shrink and weaken due to lack of use. Other symptoms of muscle atrophy include asymmetry and impaired balance. In most cases, muscle atrophy can be reversed with ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease. An intervention ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) refers to a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affects the basal ganglia ... difficulty with balance, stiffness (rigidity) of muscles, particularly ...

Both Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are neuromuscular diseases. DMD is a severe X-linked ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E (CMT2E) is a slow and progressive neuropathy characterized by axonal dysfunction. Its clinical phenotype includes muscle weakness and atrophy, sensory loss and ...

ISLAMABAD: A five-year plan to eradicate spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness that was once a leading cause of infant mortality has been launched.