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Early Symptoms Of Lou Gehrig's Disease
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What are lou gehrig disease symptoms?
ALS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or lou gehrig's disease is a degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. The symptoms include weakness of the upper arms and legs. Often the muscles will appear to move under the skin like a bunch of worms. The diagnosis is made with an EMG, a lumbar puncture and an MRI of the brain and spinal cord. An opinion from a neurologist will provide you further information ...Read more
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Premature (Definition)
Very premature is a condition in which a baby is delivered between 28 and 31 weeks' gestation. Depending on how premature, how sick, and how lucky or unlucky a baby is, he can get brain problems, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness, developmental problems, learning disabilities, severe lung diseases, infection and loss of some intestines, etc... Babies who are only moderately premature usually ...Read more
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What is the progression of ALS or lou gehrigs disease?
Specifics: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a disease of the motor nerve cell in brain and spinal cord, is progressive, irreversible, and causes muscle weakness, muscle flickering, and atrophy, in arms, legs, tongue, and leads to progressive disability, loss of ability to breathe and swallow. No cure, sole drug approved is Riluzole, which helps delay tracheostomy but not effect on weakness. ...Read more
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Is lou gehrig's disease related to polio?
No: Although amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (lou gerig's disease) is marked by distruction of nerves and atrophy of muscles, the cause remains elusive. No link to polio has been made. ...Read more
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What's the difference between lou gehrig's disease and kennedy disease?
A lot: Lou gehrig's is als, and is much faster in progression. Only about 10% of ALS cases are genetic. Kennedy's disease is genetic, and slower to progress. They can overlap initially, but the disease course is much different. ...Read more
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What is ALS ( lou gehrigs disease )?
Paralysis of muscles: Lou gehrig's disease is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The disease attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that run the muscles that we can normally control. The cause of the disease is not known. In about 10% it is genetic. People with lou gehrig's disease slowly become weak in the arms and legs, and can have difficulty speaking, swallowing, and breathing. ...Read more
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What is lou gehrigs disease like?
NASTY: An incurable disease causing death of motor neurons in brain and spinal cord, which results in weakness, muscular atrophy, fasciculations of muscles, increased reflexes, eventual loss of ability to swallow and/or breath, and typically death within 3-5 yrs in most pts. Hope you never encounter this rare but devastating disease. ...Read more
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Is swollen tongue a symptom of lou gehrig's disease?
Not directly: They is some evidence that shows damage to parts of the brain resulting from the disease causing swallowing difficulty but not necessarily from hypertrophy of the tongue. ...Read more
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What causes the death of someone with lou gehrig's disease?
Mostly infection: When the disease affects motor nerve cells at base of brain, causing bulbar problems, the pt loses the ability to swallow, and breathe, with the need for tracheostomy, and perhaps a peg feeding device. This is a real setup for infection, and pneumonia is not an uncommon end to this dismal and tragic disease. ...Read more
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Symptoms of huntingtons disease, is it fatal?
No cure but treatmen: It is a relentless, progressive degenerative neurological disease. There is no cure for the disease. The symptoms include chorea (dance-like movements) for which there is an fda approved medicine and psychiatric symptoms usually with disinhibition. Any child of a patient has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. One should see a movement disorders neurologist for treatment. ...Read more
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Is lou gehrigs disease sex linked?
No: Most of it is sporadic. I do not know any variants of lou gehrig's that travel on the x-chromosome. This is in contrast with duchenne's / becker's muscular dystrophy, a weakness syndrome on the x chromosome that might be mistaken for lou gehrig's by a very inept physician. Lou gehrig's is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It is also unrelated to sexual activity. ...Read more
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Is pku and huntington disease the same disease entity?
Some comments: Pku is a problem with children and this needs early diagnosis to prevent profound complications. Huntington's chorea is an autosomal dominant disorder occurring later in life, and is relatively rare, but genetic counseling might be valuable. Neither disorder has any relationship to the other. ...Read more
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Is lou gehrig's disease contagious?
No: It is either sporadic or familial, rare disease, and has no infectious or communicative aspects. ...Read more
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Can lou gehrig's disease be detected before birth?
No: There is no available technique, either via ultrasound or amniocentesis which can do this. ...Read more
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What are early signs of huntingtons disease?
Many signs: 50% of Huntington's patient develop psychiatric symptoms and 50% develop neurological symptoms which are usually involuntary movements - including chorea,a the tho sis, dystopia and tics. ...Read more
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What are early signs of Parkinson's disease?
Some signs: If you have shaking of you hands/arms while limbs at rest, if your balance is unsteady, and you are taking tiny little steps uncertainly, if you are developing progressive constipation, and swallowing is troublesome, if your shoulders and limbs feel tight and stiff, if you organizational skills are failing, and judgement and visual skills an issue, or you are experiencing twisting of a foot. ...Read more
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What are presenting symptoms of Huntington disease?
Huntington: It is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination & leads to cognitive deficits & psychiatric problems. Symptoms become noticeable between ages 35 & 45, & include jerky random uncontrollable movements called chorea, memory problems, mood changes, etc. ...Read more
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What are the symptoms of huntingston chorea disease?
See definition.: Huntington disease is a slowly progressive, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by chorea, incoordination, cognitive decline, personality changes, and psychiatric symptoms, culminating in immobility, mutism, and inanition. [1] it is an autosomal dominant, trinucleotide repeat disorder that affects men and women equally. It characteristically appears in mid-adult life but can occur at any age. ...Read more
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Why is ALS called lou gehrig's disease?
Interesting history: When lou gehrig died, no autopsy was ever done, and it was thought that he did suffer als, but retrospective analysis raises question of what we now know to be a chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Regardless, his name is associated with degeneration of motor nerve cells in brain and spinal cord. ...Read more
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What is lou gehrig disease caused by?
Most are sporadic: While most cases of lou gehrigs disease do not have a known cause ("sporadic als"), approximately 5% of cases do run in families ("familial als"). There have been many proposed risk factors for developing sporadic als, but no clear smoking gun has been found to date. ...Read more
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What sort of disease is creutzfeldt-jacob disease (c.J.D.)?
A prion disease: Cjd is caused by infection/exposure to an abnormal form of the prion protein (pp). The abnormal form of pp is a completely bent out of shape version of the normal pp . This abnormal shape is very hard for the protein to change to spontaneously, but this can happen (1 in a million people). Once changed the abnormal pp changes other pp's and so on as the disease rapidly spreads/kills the brain. ...Read more
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