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What Is Muscular Atrophy?
Spinal muscular atrophy is a group of inherited diseases that cause progressive muscle degeneration and weakness, eventually leading to death.
Alternative Names
Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
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. Approximately 4 out of every...
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Muscle atrophy
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Muscle atrophy is the wasting or loss of muscle tissue.Alternative NamesMuscle wasting; Wasting; Atrophy of the musclesConsiderationsThere are two... Read more »
Muscular Dystrophy
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There is no single disease called muscular dystrophy. The term designates a group of hereditary muscle-destroying disorders that vary in inheritance... Read more »
Vaginal Atrophy (Atrophic Vaginitis)
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Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
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Olivopontocerebellar atrophy is a disease that causes areas deep in the brain, just above the spinal cord, to shrink. Alternative Names ... Read more »
Multiple system atrophy
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Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rare condition that causes symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. However, patients with MSA have more... Read more »
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